Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

An international team of scientists, including the University of Wollongong (UOW), has found compelling evidence that a ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

In ancient Judaism and early Christianity, angels were portrayed as powerful beings who guarded the Garden of Eden, ...

The king cobra occupies a singular position in the natural world-one defined not just by its biology but also by an unlikely ...

And then, of course, there’s the sheer fear of birth. So much blood to bring love into the world! The real Nativity—for Mary, ...

Scientists have developed an experimental way to study how human embryos implant in a uterus, which may provide new insights ...