Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within.

A team of scientists based in Brazil recently reported that they discovered a new species of Tinamou in the mountains of the ...

A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...

We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...

Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

A new JNU study reveals alarming levels of antibiotic-resistant superbugs in Delhi’s air, raising urgent public health ...

The slow but steady rise in the population of the Kashmiri stag, or Hangul, offers a rare note of optimism in an otherwise ...

The court invoked Ecuador’s rights of nature laws in halting a highway project to protect the Jambato harlequin toad, ...