We've ranked the most interesting archaeological finds of all time, ranging from the intricate ruins of Machu Picchu to the ...

In 2009, struggling with the significant behavioral health injuries of Soldiers and families as a result of the “Long War,” ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Modern species of bears living near humans for extended periods show evidence of genetic changes making them less aggressive ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

LONDON — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after ...

Scientists discovered a new human species, Homo juluensis, in the Xujiayao site in China that lived 200,000 years ago.

Perhaps also surprising, the remains of cats and artistic depictions of them have been observed in various archaeological ...

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

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

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