A tiny tooth can disappear between your fingertips without much effort. Yet some of the earliest clues to our own evolutionary story come from fossils no larger than that.

We can’t protect what we do not know, and now that we have confirmed that this other species of pangolin exists, we can use ...

Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in primates. Now, an Oxford evolutionary psychologist who doubted it from the start ...

Tiny fossil teeth discovered in Colorado reveal new clues about Purgatorius, the earliest known primate relative, reshaping ...

Across the forests of central and western Africa, two of the most remarkable primates on Earth live very different lives ...

New research challenges the notion that humans have the hardest childbirth among animals, revealing that many primates, ...

Giraffe intelligence research is changing how the world views animal cognition. A new scientific discovery shows that ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown fossil ape from Egypt that could alter long-held ideas about the origins of ...

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...