A massive ape species once walked the Earth — and its remains are sparking fresh debates about what really lived alongside early humans.

VCG. Located in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, the Longgupo site has recently witnessed several new discoveries, including the discovery of a new s ...

Standing up to 3 meters tall and weighing 300 kilograms, Gigantopithecus blacki was the largest ape to ever live. Fossils from China, Vietnam, and Thailand show it thrived for 1.5 million years before ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...

A police investigation is ongoing after remains recovered near U.S. Highway 70 were confirmed to be human.Alamogordo police responded to the human remains at the 1400 block of U.S. 70. The remains ...

The same technology that was supposed to put graphic designer Lisa Carstens out of business is now keeping her busier than ever. Carstens, a longtime freelancer based in Spain, spends a good portion ...

Authorities with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office discovered human remains after they were led to a shallow grave near Mount Rainier. A person of interest in a case involving a woman’s ...

Scientists continue to make progress with research on how well pig organs might perform in humans, and now they’re ready for the next step: larger-scale clinical trials. eGenesis, one of the biotech ...

Over the course of our long, complicated evolutionary history, humans have seen our brains triple in size, now weighing in at roughly three pounds on average. At some point along the way, humans ...

Mark Cuban said AI's fatal flaw is that it can't admit when it doesn't know the answer. Humans' ability to be humble and say "I don't know" will always give an edge over machines, he said. Cuban ...

USC is by far the biggest disagreement between the computers and humans. The Trojans aren't ranked in either of the human polls — they're not even the first, second or third team out. Meanwhile, the ...