A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit ...

China is steadily building a “Pax Sinica” in the Indo-Pacific through its aggressive maritime expansion, economic leverage, and coercive actions — especially toward Taiwan — while the world remains ...

NASA’s first Mars helicopter turned a risky experiment into a new way of exploring another world, and now its successors are ...