The salivary amylase gene, known as AMY1, is already known to have helped us adapt to eating carbs. It encodes amylase, an ...

The major difference between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal indicates that Neanderthals were outcompeted by the former.

What may surprise you, though, is how well our most ancient ancestors ate. One reason they led quite a healthy life was that ...

Many species of animals go through mass migrations, but there’s likely no species on Earth that has migrated to more ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in east China identified as an extinct species of leopard cat Th ...

BEIJING -- Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in East China, identified as ...

Jay, Florida’s only unique bird species, continues to wait its turn but, year after year, its chances die on the Senate floor ...

A cave in France that was used by Neanderthals – or possibly their ancestors – may contain the oldest direct evidence of ...

NASA said on Friday that its Parker Solar Probe was "safe" and operating normally after successfully completing the ...

The subterranean cafe and main conference room have large observation windows — think of an aquarium with humans swimming ...

Life doesn’t have to be a continuation of the despotic Anthropocene,” Dr Glenn A. Albrecht tells me on the new season of ...

One of Neal Stephenson’s favorite texting buddies is Seamus Blackley, a creator of the Xbox when he was at Microsoft and a ...