Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, ...

Humanity’s family tree is long and tangled. Scientists sort our ancient relatives into three familiar groups: Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Each of these is a “genus”, the rank just above a ...

Early humans may have spread across the Americas by specializing in giant prey such as mammoths, ground sloths, and gomphotheres.

This social behavior might reveal the evolutionary roots of traits that underlie pet-keeping in humans, scientists say, from ...

Dryopithecus lived in the warm forests of Miocene Europe and remains difficult to place within the great ape family tree. Fossils from France, Spain, and Austria show a fruit-eating ape with ...

Amid this controversy, Russian biologist Ilya Ivanov set out in the mid-1920s to crossbreed humans and chimpanzees. Ivanov ...

We aren’t the only animals that like to take care of other species. A new study finds that the roots of keeping a pet may stretch deep into our primate past. Stump-tailed macaques grooming a dog in ...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes completely flipped the script on the sci-fi franchise, reviving it for a new generation.

The World Health Organization warns that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is on track to become the deadliest on record. Why is controlling the virus a major challenge? Are ...

Orangutans share 97% of our DNA, use tools, and can plan for the future, yet all three species now teeter on the edge of ...

The difference between words and language is important in animal research. A flurry of admonishments erupts from two parents ...

Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human ...