Research Reveals Whales Evolved in Three Rapid Phases, Their Ancestors Crawled Out of the Sea 400 Million Years Ago A recent research revealed a remarkable story of whale evolution—how these ...

Some of our species’ earliest ancestors may have spent a lot more time eating salad than steak. Diet has been a crucial component of human evolution, says Tina Lüdecke, a geochemist at the Max ...

Scientists have reconstructed the face of a long-lost human ancestor who may have played a crucial role in our evolution. Experts used the Harbin skull, also known as the "dragon man," which is a ...

But thanks to a skull that was hidden in northeastern China for over 80 years, we can now see what our Denisovan ancestors really looked like. The skull was found by a worker in Harbin ...

A study published in the Journal of Human Evolution found that chimpanzees select harder stones for nut-cracking tasks, similar to early human ancestors. This behavior suggests deep evolutionary ...

What happens when a GOAT means a duck? Glad you asked because it happened on Sunday at Raymond James Stadium. Tom Brady was on the call as the Bucs looked to win the NFC South. Before the game the ...

Further back in evolution, two babies at once was the norm. Our ancient primate ancestors gave birth to twins. Modern humans overwhelmingly birth just a single child — a rather large child with ...

"It allowed (the pre-human ancestors) to access a whole array of foods that they would never have had access to before." Plummer said that new diet would have fueled body and brain growth ...

On a lakeside peninsula in Eastern Africa, archaeologists have found clues about a society that lived there over 3 million years ago. The Homa Peninsula, in Kenya, is part of the East African Rift ...

Credit: Neil Roach Ancient tracks like these help fill crucial gaps in the story of human evolution. Unlike fossilized bones, footprints offer direct evidence of how early humans walked, interacted, ...