Many mountain gorillas keep living - vigorous and socially engaged - for a decade or more beyond the years of reproduction.

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 ...

Most animals, including humans, carry an internal lunar clock, tuned to the 29.5-day rhythm of the Moon. It guides sleep, ...

In the quest to create better options for couples facing infertility, scientists have been racing to create eggs and sperm in a laboratory dish. A study published Tuesday in Nature Communications from ...

Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into synthetic uterine tissue—revealing a key stage in reproduction. The resulting ...

How did Homo sapiens manage to leave Africa around 50,000 years ago, when earlier treks out of the continent had ended in failure? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...