Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

When you run, the arches can temporarily flatten and then recoil, returning energy to help propel you forward. Babies are born with flat feet. Human arches develop over time as muscles and ligaments ...

One of three jawbones excavated from Thomas Quarry in Morocco that is 773,000 years old. - Hamza Mehimdate/Programme Préhistoire de Casablanca Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...