Domestic dogs are among the most diverse mammals on the planet. From the tiny chihuahua to the towering great dane, the ...

Neanderthals, the ancient group of archaic humans didn't experience a 'true extinction', scientists in Italy and Switzerland ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the ...

Would you choose to have a part of your body live on after you died? How might your choice affect your relatives—or even your ...

Learn how a small section in Neanderthals' DNA gave them a lower jaw that was much larger than human jaws.

A Kenyan site reveals early humans made and used the same Oldowan stone tools for 300,000 years, showing remarkable stability ...

The research team from Bournemouth University intends to further examine the burials to uncover new clues. DNA is being ...

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for ...

Scientists at Georgia State University have used CRISPR gene editing to restore an ancient enzyme humans lost millions of years ago potentially reversing the buildup of uric acid that causes gout.

New evidence is emerging in Kenya of early humans crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years during the Pliocene, despite ...

“The fossil and plant records tell an incredible story,” said Rahab N. Kinyanjui from the National Museums of Kenya. “As the ...

For ~300,000 years, the same craft endures - perhaps revealing the roots of one of our oldest habits: using technology to steady ourselves against change ...