New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

The terms hominid and hominin are often used interchangeably, but they do not mean the same thing. Hominids include all great ...

From her studies, Fiona concluded that the relative absence of creepy-crawlies was the biggest reason chimpanzees build nests. When she slept on the bare ground, she found that just after sunset it ...

Ancient human skull fossils (stock image). A human skull found in 1990 is now changing scientists' understanding of human evolution. In a study published in the journal Science on Sept. 25, ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

Our bodies are not perfectly designed, but are a living archive of evolution. Anatomy reveals a historical record of ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a study in Nature Communications. It is the first time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new reconstruction (center) of the crushed Yunxian 2 skull (right) found in China is seen with another squashed skull (left) ...