Human performance—be it artistic, academic, social, or otherwise—is often influenced by the size of the crowd around them. But we aren’t the only species that adjusts to an audience. According to ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered hominin group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day ...

A new study proposes that human culture’s unique power lies not in its ability to accumulate knowledge, as once thought, but ...

The fossils are from two extinct species Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis each of them small creatures less than 12 inches long (but about the same size as the ...

First identified by archaeologists in 1978, the site was initially found to be home to at least 70 hominin footprints ...

The rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet ...

In romantic movies, kissing often symbolizes love, yet this simple act of pressing lips together has peculiar origins.