This week in science: Japanese researchers find out just how many times you can clone a clone; CERN takes antimatter on a road trip for the first time; Australian scientists discover that sperm gets ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

Live Science spoke with Herman Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist and author of the book "Adaptable," about the science ...

A fossil from Egypt hints we may have been looking in the wrong place for ape origins. A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

A new study shows how the mismatch between where fossils are preserved and where humans likely lived may influence our understanding of early human evolution. Much of the early human fossil record ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Could a newly discovered fossil in Egypt fundamentally change everything scientists currently know about human evolution?