Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dating back 430,000 years, at the Marathousa 1 site in ...

Discovery of complex pre-historic tools in China suggests our ancestors were far more advanced than thought - Find suggests ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

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 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...

Human penis size indicates male attractiveness and fighting ability, with a larger size more attractive to women and more ...

The new evolutionary study found two main reasons for the primate anomaly: to attract mates and to threaten rivals.

“While the human penis functions primarily to transfer sperm, our result suggests its unusual large size evolved as a sexual ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...

This prehistoric piece of alder found at the Marathousa 1 archaeological site in Greece might be the earliest wooden tool ...