WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

The five-part series examines how we, as Homo sapiens, went from being just one of many types of human to becoming the ...

A decomposing human body can release a significant amount of nutrients into the soil, enriching it for plant growth.

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo ...

Students and parents alike are making the most of their weekend by dropping by the Star Education Fair 2025 in Johor Baru on ...

Paleoneurobiologist Emiliano Bruner explores the superpower of projecting images and words that has allowed us to make a ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, suggesting her parents might have belonged to different species ...

These piercing eyes belong to a reconstruction of a Neanderthal, an ancient human relative that shared the planet with Denisovans and modern humans. Genetic research suggests that they went ...

An average maturing tree under optimal conditions can transport up to 10,000 gallons of water only to capture about 1,000 usable gallons for the production of food and adding to its biomass.