Over 300 million years ago, a minnow-sized fish died and fell to the bottom of a prehistoric swamp near the village of Trawden, Lancashire, in northwest England. The remains of this tiny fish—known as ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown fossil ape from Egypt that could alter long-held ideas about the origins of ...

Although modern crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials are restricted to the tropics, their fossil record tells a very ...

Learn how 3D models of primate birth canals found that squirrel monkeys, bushbabies, and other small species may face a ...

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a cave used by pre-Neanderthal human-like creatures who lived as long as 400,000 ...

UK researchers found that our ancestors experienced a rapid growth spurt between 2 and 2.5 million years ago, potentially due ...

Deep within the dark caves of northeastern Mexico lives a fish that has spent hundreds of thousands of years adapting to a world without light. The blind Mexican cavefish (Astyanax mexicanus) has ...

Extraordinary new discoveries are suggesting, for the very first time, that archaic (non-Homo-sapiens) early human society ...

While walking through the dry, eroded gullies of Koobi Fora in northern Kenya in 1969, Richard Leakey came across a fossil fragment. The discovery did not have much fanfare at the time of its ...

One of the individuals with a crushed skull and other skeletal parts of an adult Neanderthal was taken from a shallow scoop grave covered with stones. This was the research team’s first meeting with ...

Why do we have big brains? Or walk on two legs? Biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts talks human exceptionalism, evolution and her new book Humans with Michael Marshall ...