Fossils from Germany’s Miocene era reveal Danuvius guggenmosi, an ape that walked upright 12 million years ago. With long ...

Interestingly, the closest living algal relatives of land plants—the Zygnematophyceae—are much simpler in structure, ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates, according to researchers.

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

The role of megafaunal exploitation in early human evolution remains debated. Occasional use of large carcasses by early hominins has been considered by some as opportunistic, possibly a fallback ...

TAHK0 says he felt “discouraged” after the initial pushback, but as new Megas from the then-unreleased Pokémon Legends: Z-A were revealed, like Mega Dragonite and Mega Malamar, which both have pretty ...

Neanderthals are getting a well-deserved scientific rewrite. A growing body of paleoarchaeological evidence indicates that ...

In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.

The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to ...

Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution is taking the trading card market by storm, and with its follow-up expansion, Phantasmal Flames, on the near horizon, it's only going to get that bit more chaotic through ...