A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

Anthropologists have uncovered evidence of an ancient ape species that roamed Africa on two feet seven million years ago, ...

A stunning fossil find in Türkiye could upend everything we thought we knew about where humans come from. Buried for nearly ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.

Lucy Hyde, a lecturer in anatomy at the University of Bristol has turned her attention to the Christmas villain, in a bid to unmask him once and for all.

I must have been annoying because since cutting back, being in the company of drunken people has become so excruciating.

Dian Fossey transformed our view of mountain gorillas while fighting to save them. But she was also a flawed obsessive whose ...

In many parts of the U.S., it’s legal to own animals that most people only ever see in the wild or at the zoo. These include everything from large predators to rainforest species with very specific ...

Fossils found in Georgia challenge existing theories of human origins, suggesting two early human species coexisted at the Dmanisi site.

It’s been a thrilling year for Colchester Zoo with an exciting variety of new arrivals, future plans, and the move to a ...

An international team of scientists has found out that two types of ancient people originated in Africa, and not one, as previously thought. To clarify this issue, they analyzed the area of dental ...

As Stephen Colbert made Paul Giamatti a drink onstage at NJPAC, he couldn’t resist also making an observation. “You know that because of ‘Sideways,’ everybody thinks you’re a wine guy.” Cue audience ...