What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move individual toes.

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

The fossils were looted in the Gobi Desert and were confiscated by French customs officials during a 2015 seizure. The ...

WINONA, Minn. — It was a dinosaur that once roamed the Earth 66 million years ago, and now a big piece of it sits housed in a ...

It is true that humans deny the inevitability of death, believing—as long as they feel well—that it happens only to others ...

Scientists learn about the brain's inner workings by studying what animals or people do, how they move, react, and make ...

Researchers from Cologne developed an AI method to recover missing data from animal movement recordings and to efficiently quantify behaviour / publication in Nature Methods ...

Locating a 1,700-year-old Roman-era sarcophagus in Budapest was exciting enough for archaeologists with the Budapest History ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

From custom gene editing to a discovery that could help stop pancreatic cancer before it starts, these advances offer a ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team found that patients with knee osteoarthritis show a weaker human-body ...

Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate "biohybrid robots" made ...