The study suggests that both humans and chimpanzees possess a “shared cognitive predisposition” for crystals. Whenever such a trait emerges as common between two related species, it’s likely that this ...

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

Scientists found that chimpanzees consume alcohol from naturally fermented fruit, offering new clues about animal diets and ...

The skull of the Australopithecus nicknamed 'Little Foot'. (Wits University/CC BY SA 4.0) Scientists have reconstructed the ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like?

Common Chimpanzees are found in the tropical forests and wet savannas of Western and Central Africa. They once inhabited most of this region, but their habitat has been dramatically reduced in recent ...

Understanding biodiversity within species is key to our understanding of why nature works the way it does, say researchers ...

How did chins form in humans? We’re the only primates to have the protrusion, a small piece of bone extending from the.

Professor Tim Coulson describes evolution as a gradual process that alters living organisms over generations. The mechanism ...

Laughter is good medicine. Too much laughter may cause laugh syncope, a rare condition characterized by a transient loss of ...

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

Will AI Accelerate Or Undermine The Way Humans Have Always Innovated?. In graduate school, my experimental archaeology professor told a student to create a door socket – the hole in a door frame that ...