Study reveals rising artemisinin resistance in Africa, echoing Asia's past, urging urgent action to prevent widespread crisis ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

Another twist has been added to the puzzling mix that is early human ancestry with evidence that one of the most complete pre ...

The monogamy rate in humans may be higher than you expected... but we do it in a strange way compared to other animals.

Researchers have found that domestic cats “did not spread to Europe with Neolithic farmers [in West Asia]” as earlier ...

Over the last 12 months, scientists from London’s Natural History Museum have been busy collecting, studying and cataloguing the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth. Museum scientists have given ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Between the 16th and 19th centuries, when colonialism was the prevailing order, it is not surprising that scientific expeditions, specimen deposits in natural history museums, and descriptions of ...

80-million-year-old fossils revealed that this dyrosaurid species began to diversify millions of years earlier than previously thought, starting with evolutionary changes in its bite.