Human and chimpanzee genomes are more than 98% identical, and the genes themselves barely differ. The changes that make us ...

Variants in genes involved in the production of extracellular matrix molecules could have enabled the skeletal adaptations that distinguish humans from other great apes.

A skeleton-like object found in scrap in central Delhi has triggered a police probe. A school has emerged as a possible ...

There is a certain brand of madness reserved for those who choose to hurtle down a winding corridor of jagged ice with nothing but a thin sheet of fiberglass between ...

Earth’s earliest primates dwelled in treetops, not on the ground, according to an analysis of a 62-million-year-old partial skeleton discovered in New Mexico. The skeleton—the oldest ever found—was ...