New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Blue Origin will launch the NS-37 mission on Dec. 18 with the first wheelchair user to reach space, along with five other passengers on the New Shepard suborbital flight ...

Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.

Trump wants Bagram back. Satellite images show how the Taliban are using it. Stephen Colbert wonders why 'The Late Show' was ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

“Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have mastered the art of making fire far earlier than previously believed and ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...