Many people assume obesity is caused by inactivity and burning fewer calories. But our diets — and excess calorie intake — ...

Braces, rubber bands, even jaw surgery—millions endure them in pursuit of a straighter smile. But were misaligned smiles ...

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were ...

The detailed reconstruction brings the prehistoric hunter-gatherer to life, revealing an intriguing set of features.

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo ...

She gazes out with piercing blue eyes. Her face, neither pale nor dark, sits framed by long, dark hair. If you passed her in ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

New research suggests that they smashed animal bones into tiny pieces before boiling them to extract the high-calorie grease ...

Using well-preserved ancient DNA, researchers have created a life-like facial reconstruction of a woman who lived in ...