Primates have big brains, but so do elephants and whales. Elephants and whales, however, have much larger bodies that their ...

Though some might be surprised to see Neanderthal DNA in their ancestry test results, people of non-African descent derive 1 ...

On Earth today, there is only one species of humans. Us. Homo sapiens to use our scientific term. But this was not always the ...

From indestructible tardigrades to body-merging comb jellies, animals can teach humans so much about medicine, robotics, ...

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor’s Study Provides a New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding with ...

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What may surprise you, though, is how well our most ancient ancestors ate. One reason they led quite a healthy life was that ...

Many species of animals go through mass migrations, but there’s likely no species on Earth that has migrated to more ...

BEIJING -- Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in East China, identified as ...

The salivary amylase gene, known as AMY1, is already known to have helped us adapt to eating carbs. It encodes amylase, an ...