Bonobos eat their aquatic greens, perhaps to get their daily dose of iodine.

Thicker calluses don’t dull sensitivity in feet.

In long-distance, physically taxing events, the amount of energy athletes can expend appears to peak at about 2.5 times their metabolic resting rate—a maximum likely dictated by how many calories they can digest.

Fossil records show that the most recent shared ancestor with modern humans may have lived at least 800,000 years ago.

A mandible dating to 160,000 years ago is the first evidence of Denisovan hominins outside the Russian cave where they were first discovered in 2010.

The fabella disappeared from our lineage millions of years ago, but over the last century, its presence in people’s knees has become more common.

When compared to teeth from Homo erectus and orangutans, the remains from an ancient ape appear to belong to a new genus.

Drastic dietary changes during the agricultural revolution altered the configuration of the human bite, paving the way for new sounds in spoken language, a new study finds.

A finding pushes back the timeline on humankind’s conquest of one of Earth’s harshest environments, and may provide clues about interactions with their hominin relatives.