A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Scientists uncovered water sealed beneath Canada’s crust for over two billion years. Salty, bitter and microbe-tinged, the ancient find could hold secrets about Earth’s past and life beyond.

Protein evidence reveals hidden variation in P. robustus. The species may be more complex than once believed. For close to a ...

Researchers have unveiled an ancient Egyptian handprint that was left on a soul house tomb offering 4,000 years ago.

From Homer to Pliny, some of the greatest classical writers may have been inspired - and fooled - by fossil discoveries.

For some cultures, the practice of cranial deformation may have offered individuals a path to privilege later in their lives.

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ...

Asteroids floating through our solar system are debris left over from when our planetary neighborhood formed 4.6 billion ...