Western Europe has a new oldest face: the facial bones of an adult nicknamed "Pink" discovered in Spain are from a potential new member of the human family who lived more than 1.1 million years ago, ...

New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a ...

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The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

The research team has found that a koala population in Australia has evolved a distinctive genomic immunity to a retrovirus.

New fossil evidence from a Spanish cave suggests an unknown prehistoric human population once lived in Europe.

Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...

Mice are still incapable of writing the complete works of Shakespeare, despite some being given a human "language gene".