The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, ...

Have you ever looked into the mirror and wondered just how deeply your roots stretch back in the tree of life? It might ...

Mar. 27, 2025 — Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than ... A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal ...

Little Foot is from a branch of the human family tree called Australopithecus, latin for "southern ape" -- considered the ancestors of modern humans, with a mixture of ape-like and human ...

Little Foot is from a branch of the human family tree called Australopithecus, Latin for "southern ape" - considered the ancestors of modern humans, with a mixture of ape-like and human ...

Instead, the chin was a byproduct of a shrinking face. Indeed, as the first modern humans evolved, late in the Pleistocene, the face decreased in size and tilted inward, pushing part of the lower ...

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...