This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

The end result is a lifelike, science-backed rendering of this ancient human's appearance, offering the most realistic look at our Denisovan's ancestors to-date. For more on this story ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

We propose that the switch from twins to singletons was critical for the evolution of large human babies with ... from our tiny primate ancestors birthing in the trees 60 million years ago.

The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary ... good for tree-climbing. Australopithecus stood ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...

A study published in the Journal of Human Evolution found that chimpanzees select harder stones for nut-cracking tasks, similar to early human ancestors. This behavior suggests deep evolutionary ...

These phylogenetic or evolutionary trees ... the human genome, the most distantly related kinases are about a billion years apart," says Dr. Notredame. "They duplicated in the common ancestor ...

A recent study has discovered an interesting link between the tool selection behavior of chimpanzees and early human ancestors. Published in the Journal of Human Evolution, the research showed how ...

Jan 16 (Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage ... an important early human ancestor that displayed a mix of ape-like and human ...