New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

According to new research recently published in the journal Nature Communications, the Greenland shark retained its visual ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

In the mice with large-brain primate microbes, the researchers found increased expression of genes associated with energy ...

Studying ancient sea creatures’ snoozing habits could shed light on the origins of sleep.

Synaptic plasticity allows brains to learn, adapt, and rewire. It’s foundational to memory, problem-solving, and complex ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...