Researchers argue that humans became strongly right-handed through a gradual evolutionary process tied to bipedalism and ...

Researchers reveals how walking on two legs and expanding brain size drove the evolution of human right-handedness.

It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

The island of Guam has a snake problem. Though innocuous enough in appearance – slender with brownish or greenish coloration ...

Oldest Homo fossils: New finds in Ethiopia’s Afar region date to 2.8 million years ago, possibly the earliest known Homo ...

This secret South Carolina island is home to thousands of wild monkeys living freely in one of America’s strangest hidden ...

Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters disappearing.

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A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...