Some of the fundamental differences between humans and other apes lie in their skeletons. Evolutionary changes that shaped the human skeleton opened the ...

It’s news to no one that women have been consistently demonised in popular culture for a very, very long time. In her new ...

Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other ...

A 165-million-year-old fossil has revealed an extraordinary Jurassic predator that may help explain how mammals developed one ...

Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them. A ...