Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution.

In just 8 minutes, we take you on a breathtaking journey through the history of our world, from the moment of the Big Bang to the present day. Earth’s evolution spans billions of years, marked by ...

Yet the scientific evidence for human evolution keeps piling up with many discoveries of ancient bones, stone tools, cave drawings and other evidence of ancient life. For most people, only modern ...

First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set the stage for its arrival.

New theory proposes that humans — and analogous life beyond Earth — may represent the probable outcome of biological and planetary evolution UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Humanity may not be ...

Requirements for long-term human settlement were only met around 400 million years ago, he adds, after 91 percent of Earth’s history had elapsed. “Carter assumed humans could have evolved at ...

We’re living in a weird time on Earth: a period when our planet has ice. Amid persistent and frequent record heat, it may be surprising to hear that Earth is currently relatively cool — at ...

A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

What roils beneath the Earth’s surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution.