Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Humans, it turns out, possess much higher metabolic rates than other mammals, including our close relatives, apes and chimpanzees, finds a Harvard study. Having both high resting and active metabolism ...

However, because infant specimens are extremely rare in the fossil record, scientists were until now unsure if these ...

In a new study, a team of biologists found that participants' breathing patterns were so unique that they could identify them with almost perfect accuracy. But not only that; the study also showed ...