Meanwhile, early dog trade might stretch even further back than the new studies indicate. To find remains from the first ...

Researchers have discovered a mysterious and previously-unknown population that flourished in present-day Argentina for ...

People have been choosing plant-based diets for thousands of years, for reasons that go far beyond food fads. From ancient ...

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and ...

Kissing is an ancient trait retained over the course of evolution amongst the large apes, reveal scientists at the University of Oxford and Florida Institute of Technology.

Kissing is something of a mystery, being "only documented in 46 percent of human cultures," noted psychologist Catherine ...

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world's largest rainforest, ...

A massive 4,000-year-old Bronze Age coffin, carved from a single oak tree and discovered by chance at a Lincolnshire golf club, has arrived at Lincoln Museum, UK, where it will be displayed to the ...

Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...

Over time, we have developed - and continue to develop - the traits that help us survive and flourish in the environments ...

A 4,300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in occupied Palestine may bear the earliest known artistic depiction of the origin ...