Human skeletons are often described in neat textbook numbers, but real bodies are far messier and more interesting. Extra ...

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

A human ear attached to a woman’s foot sounds like a stunt from a horror film, yet it is the centerpiece of a real, carefully planned medical rescue. In a world first, surgeons in China temporarily ...

Some adults do indeed have more than 206 bones. These extras, known as accessory bones or supernumerary bones, may occur when ...

A big difference between humans and other apes is the ability to stride easily on two feet. A new analysis of fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking go back 7 million years.

Most of the muscles of your foot let you point your toes down, like when you stand on tiptoes, or lift them up, like when you ...

Ollie Thompson is a personal trainer who has helped hundreds of people improve their health and fitness. He tells Harry ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

After attracting record sums in 2021, startup founders faced extinction-level threats two years later as interest rates rose ...

Kevin Durant left what ended up being his final game with the Brooklyn Nets after getting hurt similar to the way Nikola ...