“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

The idea of life on Earth without humans may seem like science fiction, but it has become the subject of serious scientific ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating back approximately 773,000 years are reshaping scientists’ understanding of human evolution ...

There are few things more joyful, if occasionally nerve-wracking, than having a pet in your home. And plenty of people agree.

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...

Ethiopia’s Afar region has stood out in the study of human evolution for its vast array of hominin fossils, from some of the earliest known Homo sapiens dating to 160,000 years, to hominins dating as ...

Research led by the University of Sydney is reshaping scientific understanding of one of the world's most widespread canine ...