Scientists have recapitulated in the laboratory how the cellular structures that give rise to our spinal column form sequentially. They have created a 3D in vitro model that mimics how the precursor structures that give rise to the spinal column form during human embryonic development.

New research from The University of Warwick has revealed that orangutans, the most arboreal of the great apes, produce consonant-like calls more often and of greater variety than their African ground-dwelling cousins (gorillas, bonobos and chimpanzees).

There is broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. But there remain many uncertainties and competing theories about where, when, and how.

As anyone who's spent time in the saddle knows, riding a horse can be hard on your body. But can it change the way your skeleton looks?

Researchers have traced cell origins critical to vertebrate evolution by studying a group of primitive, bloodsucking fish called lampreys.

How many bones are in the human body? Your skeleton is with you all the time, providing you structure and protection. But what do you actually know about your bones?

Learn more about the auricular muscles, which activate when we wiggle our ears, and apparently, when we listen to several sounds at once.

This southwest England area has served as a crossroads for multiple civilizations, dating back 12,000 years.

Professor Marlize Lombard, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, who has a research focus in stone age archaeology and Peter Gärdenfors, a professor of cognitive science at the University of Lund, Sweden, teamed up to investigate the cognitive implications of early fire-making techniques.

How do cells become cancerous, multiply uncontrollably, and form into tumors? And what role do aberrant embryonic stem cells play? These are big questions explored by medical researchers since the embryonic theory of cancer was first proposed in the 19th century.

In many popular accounts of human prehistory, civilization emerged in a linear fashion. Our ancestors started as Paleolithic hunter-gatherers living in small, nomadic and egalitarian bands. Later, they discovered farming and domesticated animals for food and service. Before long, they progressed to ...

Hundreds of scientific studies have been conducted over the years to find the genes underlying common human traits, from eye color to intelligence and physical and mental illnesses.

A new fossil ape from an 8.7-million-year-old site in Türkiye is challenging long-accepted ideas of human origins and adding weight to the theory that the ancestors of African apes and humans evolved in Europe before migrating to Africa between nine and seven million years ago.

Some forms of renewable energy we think of as modern were used thousands of years ago.

Ancient DNA reveals that Romans from the Italian Peninsula had little genetic influence on the populations of the Balkans, in spite of their political and cultural sway.

Settling by the sea? It's a dangerous decision. Take a tour of five sunken cities, submerged in and around Europe.

Where does pigment come from? Some colors like mummy brown actually came from ground-up mummies. Learn more about these ancient pigments and their origins.

Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals

Researchers say groups of early modern humans intermingled and spread across Africa, not just in the east and south, before moving to Europe and Asia.

Learn more about how Homo erectus may have adapted to dryer, arid conditions before Homo sapiens.