DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

Fossil evidence from Ethiopia has rewritten human history, showing Australopithecus lived one million years earlier than previously believed. These new findings bridge the gap between early ape-like ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving ...

The first animals must also have invented ways to produce the many different kinds of cells we have today; muscle cells, ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a ...

A new documentary puts viewers in the shoes of Neanderthals and early humans, giving an intimate glimpse into humans’ ...

NPR host Scott Simon contended she was the first real human being to host a regular evening newscast ... which afforded her the chance to keep doing the kind of coverage she wanted, given NPR's ...

Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution is taking the trading card market by storm, and with its follow-up expansion, Phantasmal Flames, on the near horizon, it's only going to get that bit more chaotic through ...

Renaud Joannes-Boyau receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Manish Arora receives funding from US National Institutes of Health. He is the founder of Linus Biotechnology, a start-up ...