A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

The discovery In May 1925 provided fodder for the argument between creationists and evolutionary biologists, but what does ...

What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move individual toes.

Accounts of the creatures have been circling among veterans but photographs reportedly taken on remote edges of the mountains ...

Scientists comment on a UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announcement that a new mpox strain has been identified in England. Dr Jonas Albarnaz, Institute Fellow, Capripoxvirus Biology, Pirbright ...

A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species ...

Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of c ...

New study shows Neandertals’ large noses were not cold-climate adaptations, overturning century-old assumptions about their anatomy and evolution across Europe.

Trees may look still and silent, but they’re engaged in a constant, complex dialogue—through air, soil, and even electricity.

A new analysis suggests something deeper may be going on. Two evolutionary anthropologists, Colin Shaw and Daniel Longman, ...