For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...

Authorities found the remains in Jonathan Gerlach’s basement after he was seen leaving a cemetery with a bag containing ...

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part ...

Scientists have long suspected that the trillions of microbes in our intestines do more than digest lunch, but new work goes ...

Even if you think you learned everything that you needed to know way back in biology class, everyone has knowledge gaps. And ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...

The skull had the brow of a descendant but the face of an ancestor. When researchers finished reconstructing the DAN5/P1 cranium from Ethiopia’s Afar region, dated to between 1.6 and 1.5 million years ...

A human skull was found in some bushes next to Brooklyn’s famed Coney Island Boardwalk, police said Wednesday. A man walking on Riegelmann Boardwalk near W. 32nd St. spotted the skull and other ...

City officials are investigating the discovery of a human skull along the Coney Island boardwalk in Brooklyn this week. A passerby called 911 about human remains in the bushes next to the Riegelmann ...

A human skull was found just in the bushes off the Coney Island boardwalk Tuesday evening, cops said. A homeless person spotted the remains just off the beach’s iconic Riegelmann Boardwalk between ...