Until now, anthropologists had assumed that these long-extinct creatures lacked the right hand shape for such complex tasks, ...

All families have their own quirks and habits, but one group of relatives has such a unique trait that scientists have ...

The only bear species from the approximately 11.5 million year old Hammerschmiede site in the Allgäu was a relative of the ...

It was a new species of hominin, now known as Denisovans, who were the first human cousins identified only by their DNA.

Galaxies as orderly as the Milky Way weren't supposed to exist more than 10 billion years ago. Now astronomers have found one ...

Harvey Whitehouse argues that by taking control of our evolved psychology we can overcome divisive conformism, religiosity, ...