Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

When you think about human ... times in fish, making it an example of evolutionary convergence (similar traits that evolve independently, like wings in bats and birds). The evolution of walking ...

The Homo genus began approximately 2.3 million years ago with Homo Habilis, the first species in this lineage, which led to modern humans, Homo sapiens sapiens. Fossils of Homo Habilis were found at ...

The Julurens — or “big head” people — are twisting scientists’ long-accepted understanding of human evolution ... named Homo longi or ‘Dragon Man’, from Northeast China.

Fish fossils dating back 440 million years are helping to "fill some of the key gaps" on how humans evolved from fish, researchers said on Wednesday. Two fossil deposits of ancient fish in Guizhou ...

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

A team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have zeroed in on an amphibious fish species to better understand the ... Beyond just insight into evolution, Stewart said that “[the study ...

Languages: English, Spanish A "truly extraordinary" Neanderthal skeleton covered in "cave popcorn" is shedding new light on some of the mysteries of human evolution. Known as the "Altamura Man ...

To approach a question 400 million years in the making, researchers turned to mudskippers, blinking fish that live partially out of water. A magnified view of the human eye shows the pupil ...