WOMEN really do find well-endowed men more attractive, scientists have confirmed. A study of people’s reactions to male body shapes found “bigger is better”. Polling showed women were more likely ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, takes a closer look at a structure found in multiple 518 million-year-old ...

Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to ...

A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

The 2-million-year-old partial skeleton may even represent the oldest example of H. habilis discovered so far. It includes a ...

Scientists believe they have uncovered the 'missing link' in human evolution, showing how our species may have evolved.

One afternoon, you read a paper title and pause, not because it is complex, but because it sounds wrong. Right-handed snakes.

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Genetic evidence suggests the last shared ancestor of present-day humans, as well as ancient Neanderthals and Denisovans, lived around 765,000 to 550,000 years ago. The Moroccan remains, at around 773 ...

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape appearing over 11,000 years ago. A massive global analysis of ancient skulls shows ...

(CNN) — Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil ...