A new study showed that kangaroos, whales, and other Australian crocodiles were more afraid of humans than other predators

When talking about intelligence in the animal world, humans are often regarded as the most intelligent living creatures on the planet.

Humans, despite their numerous remarkable traits, lack a feature common to most vertebrates - a tail. The reason behind this absence has long been a

Humans are very good at anthropomorphising things. That is, giving them human characteristics, like ourselves. We do it with animals—see just about any cartoon—and we even do it with our own planet…

A new finding boosts Panspermia, the theory that life on Earth originated in deep space.

ZACHARY COFRAN is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College studying human evolution, growth, and development. MARK from Evolution Soup chats...

About 90,000 years ago, an interesting child walked the Earth. This individual was a young human hybrid. Nicknamed Denny by scientists, the ancient girl is the only known individual whose parents were from two different human species!

The bones were shaped by people using stone tools before they were fossilised, adding new evidence for humans’ arrival in the Americas before the end of the Ice Age

An evolutionary analysis of behavioural traits across primate species may shed light on the question of whether humans are violent by nature

Genetic evidence reveals a long, previously unknown period of adaptation to cold climates in the history of ancient human migrations across the globe.