Did you know humans might have had a third eye, if it weren't for evolution? A common misconception is that evolution is a long chain of progress, where organisms gain cool, new features over time.

© Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig Who came before us? This question has always intrigued scientists. Fossils recently unearthed in Morocco could help us solve this enigma. A discovery in Morocco The 21 ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Our evolved craving for cause and effect once ensured survival but now fuels misunderstanding. Learning to favor correlation ...

This prehistoric piece of alder found at the Marathousa 1 archaeological site in Greece might be the earliest wooden tool ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dating back 430,000 years, at the Marathousa 1 site in ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological advances, those in East Asia relied on simpler and more conservative ...

What’s particularly exciting about finds like this is that we just so rarely have wood preserved for that long,” the study’s lead author told NBC News.

The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...

Why do humans have larger penises than other primates? New research tests attraction, rivalry, and sexual selection for ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...