The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...
A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...
A novel iLDS statistic uncovers adaptive gene sweeps in gut bacteria, highlighting evolutionary responses to modern diets and enhancing microbiome studies.
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...
In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...
Filmmaker Bertie Gregory's new documentary special captures the extreme challenges facing the world's fastest land animal.
For millennia, people have suffered from bunions, a painful condition that’s uniquely human. Here’s why—and how to ease the pain. A colored x-ray image highlights bunions in the feet of a 54-year-old ...
The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...