Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two legs before any known African hominin, but the evidence is far from conclusive ...

New fossil discoveries in the Balkans suggest that the first human ancestors may have originated in Europe rather than Africa ...

LA Times Studios, a Los Angeles Times Media Group (LATMG) company, has launched “Diaries of Transformation,” a new short ...

The Darker The Night follows Bay City nonprofit Kidneys for Kids and founder Brian Martindale's 33-state journey to inspire a record 7,000 living kidney donations.

A groundbreaking new documentary from Academy Award–winning director Morgan Neville is set to premiere on Prime Video on ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

RABAT — A newly announced fossil discovery is further cementing Morocco’s central place in the prehistory of humanity. On Jan. 7, Moroccan and international researchers revealed the unearthing of ...

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly dependent on increases in prenatal estrogen—revealed by looking at the length ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins. By Franz Lidz Researchers on Wednesday ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...