Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean ...

Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...

Instincts matter because they connect us to nature's raw, enduring truths. They remind us that beneath the complexity of ...

Even compared to chimpanzees, our closest relatives, our wounds are slow to recover – but it could be the outcome of us ...

An analysis of a jawbone found off the Taiwanese coast reveals it belonged to a Denisovan, a mysterious human species that contributed some genetic material to Indigenous Australians and people living ...

In fact, scientists believe that a plume of hot rocks that burst from the Earth's mantle millions of years ago could be an important part in the story of human evolution. What roils beneath the ...

Researchers discovered tools dating as far back as 11,500 years. The tools could be evidence of the earliest human settlement ...

In the case of domestic cats, dogs and many other domesticated species, intentional and unintentional selection by humans ...