Studies of limb proportions and bone strength now suggest a range, from more tree-based western gorillas to more ground-based Virunga ones. This means our models of ancient human relatives may need ...

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

Scientists discovered that the brainless sea anemone build their bodies with a technique common in bilaterians... which is ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

In a startling revelation that challenges long-held beliefs about human migration and cultural evolution, archaeologists have ...

Opinion: The Founders put God at the center of the Declaration of Independence Authorities reveal how girl, 5, fell overboard ...