Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

In a discovery that reshapes our understanding of early human migration in Southeast Asia, scientists have recovered the ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

Using whole genome sequencing and cutting‐edge analyses, researchers at Stockholm University have uncovered the surprising ...

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have ...

“You could see this as kind of a natural experiment in human evolution,” says Gerrit van den Bergh of the University of Wollongong, an expert on H. floresiensis.

But understanding the fossils’ true place in the human story required solidly dating the site, and that was a tricky task, since precise dating requires knowing which rock layer entombed a given ...

Ronan the sea lion can dance to a lot of different songs, but there is something about “Boogie Wonderland,” by Earth, Wind and Fire that really gets her going. It didn’t take more than a few ...

Jurassic World Evolution 3 is the "next frontier" for the series with baby dinosaurs, new creative tools, and a globe-trotting campaign Jurassic Park: Survival – Everything we know so far about ...

The top end of a specimen of Shishania, showing the three-dimensionality of its spines and their arrangement around an apical orifice. Credit: Zhang Xiguang A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a ...

5 fast facts about human evolution Humans and chimpanzees shared an ancestor 7 million years ago. All humans today are descended from people who evolved in Africa. Evolving to walk on two feet has ...