Java Man, the first fossil evidence of Homo erectus, has returned to Indonesia after over a century in the Netherlands. This ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Stand in front of a mirror and look at the very bottom of your face. That modest forward bump beneath your lower lip — the ...

Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.

A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...