A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Asteroids floating through our solar system are debris left over from when our planetary neighborhood formed 4.6 billion ...

Protein evidence reveals hidden variation in P. robustus. The species may be more complex than once believed. For close to a ...

From Homer to Pliny, some of the greatest classical writers may have been inspired - and fooled - by fossil discoveries.

Scientists uncovered water sealed beneath Canada’s crust for over two billion years. Salty, bitter and microbe-tinged, the ancient find could hold secrets about Earth’s past and life beyond.

For some cultures, the practice of cranial deformation may have offered individuals a path to privilege later in their lives.

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Researchers have unveiled an ancient Egyptian handprint that was left on a soul house tomb offering 4,000 years ago.

A mystery of ancient engineering revealed - was this the answer to Judah’s worst drought? A study by the Israel Antiquities ...