Twenty years ago, scientists found a three-foot skeleton on a tropical island. Where this human species fits in our ...

Alabama law enforcement arrested Jaquez Myrick, 25, in connection with the shooting at Tuskegee University. The shooting killed one person and left at least a dozen others injured. Macon County ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

What if human history ended today?You are one of 7.6 billion people on this Earth. But what does that mean?How can those 10 ...

An ASU evolutionary anthropologist offers a groundbreaking theory on why humans have come to dominate the world over other animals. Why is human culture — the shared body of knowledge passed down ...

The fossil remains of the unique hominid were found in Ethiopia in 1974, traveled around the world, were the subject of ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

Research shows that, instead of replanting rainforests, allowing them to bounce back naturally would store loads of carbon.

The Earth BioGenome Project seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi as they build an atlas of ...

The rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the ...

Neeraj Chauhan, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Center for Discovery and Innovation at Hackensack Meridian Health, ...

“Why did we humans start to speak, and other primates didn’t? We all produce laughter, and hundreds of species produce ...