A study into tooth wear in a group of wild Japanese macaques has significant implications for the study of human evolution.

Everyone experiences smells in their own unique way – the same scent can be pleasant, too intense or even undetectable to different noses.

Kindness is key to how we evolved and survived as a species, scientists say. We are hard-wired to be kind.

The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet.

Western honey bee are used for crop pollination and honey production throughout most of the world, and has a remarkable capacity for survive

The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet

Charles Darwin made a powerful observation that a mixture of species planted together grow more strongly than species planted individually.

The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Now, a new study has brought us closer to understanding some of its evolution.

Over 50 footprints of predecessors of early humans identified in 2017 near Trachilos, Crete shown to be over six million years old.

Computer models, fossil records and information from living mammals revealed that most of the surviving mammals did not rely on trees.

This phenomenon is not unique to humans. In many species of mammals and birds, females prefer warm places whereas males prefer cooler temps.

The rise of dinosaurs coincided with environmental changes driven by major volcanic eruptions over 230 million years ago.

Study suggests that all living snakes evolved from a handful of species that survived the giant asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs

New research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that bacteria could learn from the past to predict the future.

As we live and breathe, ancient-looking fish known as bowfin are guarding genetic secrets that that can help unravel humanity’s evolution

Research describes the discovery of three new species and hints at rapid evolution immediately after the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

The history of life on Earth has often been likened to a four-billion-year-old torch relay. One flame, lit at the beginning of the chain.

Neanderthals, long perceived to have been unsophisticated and brutish, really did paint stalagmites in a Spanish cave 60,000 years ago.

Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that changes in Earth's orbit may have allowed complex life to emerge and thrive

A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University