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

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered human remains and structural artifacts indicating a 3,000-year-old ritualistic cult ...

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...

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

A mystery of ancient engineering revealed - was this the answer to Judah’s worst drought? A study by the Israel Antiquities ...

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.

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

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

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

I t might seem hard to believe, but the ancestors of today’s whales were once land-dwelling animals. Given that they’re now ...