A new fossil study by scientists challenges long-held ideas of fish evolution, revealing surprising insights into early ...

The new finds reinforced that human evolution was more of a tangled-up bush. Different species and different branches of the hominin family tree overlapped with one another in time and space.

Our Pleistocene family tree is in no way restricted to simply just us, the neanderthals and the denisovans. Throughout the course of this iconic epoch of the Cenozoic, the Homo genus was ...

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Human evolution has long been visualized as a simple linear timeline, a kind of evolutionary baton race in which one species evolves into another, from apes to modern humans.

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild animals.

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" — where a teacher was charged with the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. At the time, it was ...

The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ancient armored fish.

Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.

Teeth first evolved as sensory organs, not for chewing, according to a new analysis of animal fossils. The first tooth-like structures seem to have been sensitive nodules on the skin of early fish ...

The new finds reinforced that human evolution was more of a tangled-up bush. Different species and different branches of the hominin family tree overlapped with one another in time and space.