Research on human evolution is advancing at a furious speed. Scholarly papers are being published constantly in scientific ...

The act of training a dog to walk on its hind legs, while seemingly a harmless display of canine intelligence, can have ...

Discover more about the origins of toenails—plus the real reasons why your toenails may be getting thicker and changing ...

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...

It’s not as apparent, but the same is somewhat true for toenails; they provide protection and help refine sensitivity. It is ...

UNBELIEVABLE three-million-year-old razor-sharp vegetable peelers used by the world’s oldest humans have been discovered. The ...

Credit: Kevin Hatala/Chatham University Footprints from Kenya’s Turkana Basin show that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei lived simultaneously 1.5 million years ago, with distinct bipedalism ...

"Bipedalism is a fundamental human characteristic," said Dr. Bernard Wood, a paleontologist at the University of Liverpool in England, "yet virtually nothing is known about its origins." ...

Biomechanics is the scientific study of the mechanics of living structures, or of non-living structures such as silk or nacre that are produced by organisms.

Dr. Nobuyuki Kawai from Nagoya University in Japan has found that the rapid detection of snakes by monkeys is because of the presence of snake scales as a visual cue. His findings highlight an ...

For dogs, most of the danger of human staircases come because the structures were designed for bipedalism. Dogs tend to careen down stairs, which can be hard on delicate spines and developing joints.