Biju Dharmapalan In an era increasingly defined by technological innovation, reading and writing-cornerstones of human ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

Many known languages, for example, have no words for numerals above 2 or 3. A linguist who curated a database of the world’s ...

As humanity sends more and more missions to Mars, it's time to start documenting our space junk and artifacts, researchers ...

Researchers believe marine fossils were deliberately collected by Neanderthals, despite holding no practical value.

The study found that unlike other vertebrates where competition generally suppresses speciation after ecological niches are ...

Scientists have identified at least three events where genes from distinct Denisovan populations mixed with human DNA, ...