Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

A remarkable fossil discovered in northern China suggests that multiple human species once shared the region around 150,000 ...

A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how ...

For years, a small set of foot bones from Ethiopia sat at the center of a quiet puzzle, so scientists kept circling back to ...

From dinosaur extinctions to a Himalyan memoir, climate science and creative writing experts review some of the best new and ...

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, ...

Learn more about the people who once used Grotta della Monaca as a sacred burial site.

For the past 25 years, novelist and publisher Anuradha Roy has called the Himalaya her home and her world. In Called by the ...

The Tupelo Visitor Center sits right at this milepost, a thoughtfully designed building that somehow manages to look both modern and like it belongs among the trees. Step inside and you’ll meet park ...