From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool making, this year has given us a clearer picture of how and why humans evolved ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

A newly published scientific study is reigniting debate over human evolution in Africa after researchers suggested that the ...

The completion of a South American lung fish genome sequencing represents one of the most remarkable moments within current ...

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

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly 350,000 years. Until now, the oldest confirmed evidence had come from Neanderthal ...

“Many people equate plants with photosynthesis, yet Balanophora illustrates that being a plant does not require being green,” ...