Research suggests that early macropodoids likely adopted a bounding gait before transitioning to bipedal hopping. Small ...

This date serves as a “lower boundary” for when language capacity must have emerged. But since Homo sapiens is at least ...

In a major archaeological discovery, researchers have found the world's oldest bone tools in Tanzania, providing new insights ...

A new book offers a fascinating journey from insects to apes and a forceful rebuttal to bigotry showing what the incredible ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

Much like we are now beginning to feel that there is something wrong with how we treat animals, perhaps some of our ancestors also had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, camels wandered the Sonoran Desert. How they got there, and what happened to ...

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

Republican members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources took aim Wednesday at the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), arguing both landmark statutes ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.