A staggering 90% of humanity, regardless of culture and location, is right-handed. New study looks at how this can be.

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

A new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution examining human populations in Sri Lankan tropical rainforests shows that people's consumption of plants began increasing thousands of years ...

Bats can swim. A snake can climb a rope by essentially turning itself into a living accordion. And baby cuttlefish are just ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years, including variants linked to celiac disease and multiple sclerosis The ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

Researchers extracted ancient proteins from six archaic humans and found something in common with other extinct relatives—and ...

Attenborough began hosting and producing nature documentaries for the BBC in the 1950s. He spoke to Terry Gross in 1995 about about traveling the world to film Life on Earth.