Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia’s Afar region is reshaping scientists’ understanding of early ...

The newly described specimen is a partial left mandible plus a molar crown, dated to about 2.6 million years ago using multiple methods, making it one of the oldest Paranthropus fossils known. The ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

Recent discoveries have reshaped the human evolutionary timeline, from older stone tools to newly identified human species ...

Mickey Mouse endures because he fits our evolved need for safe faces, shared stories, and imagination, helping us regulate ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

A new global study into heartworm points to a new evolutionary paradigm, where ancient canid hosts such as wolves and dingoes ...

Since the turn of the millennium, our understanding of our ancestors and extended cousins has shifted dramatically, thanks to ...

A sample of 4,013 participants from 24 countries were asked about aggression toward siblings and non-sibs, to determine ...

There are few things more joyful, if occasionally nerve-wracking, than having a pet in your home. And plenty of people agree.

Anthropic's Cowork and Google's Personal Intelligence validate the IPE model we predicted in November. But what happens to ...

As animals go about their lives ― eating, fighting, having babies ― they don’t always follow the script laid out for them by ...