The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

But it was one trip to the stars back in 2015 that saw NASA focus on the astronauts focused on as twins, with Scott blasted ...

Early human migration timeline into South America has stirred debate. Researchers have long argued about when these first ...

With pollen and common ditch grass seed found both in the footprints and within the same layer of hardened mud in which the ...

A new 28-minute film explores the medical, social, political and ethical challenges of parenthood and child-rearing that ...

Plastic bottles, smartphones, chicken bones – and the wider debris of everyday life – are tipped to outlast human civilisation and become the defining fossils of our age.

With continued excavation at Swartkrans, researchers hope to uncover more of SWT1/HR-2’s skeleton, which could further ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least five woolly mammoths at a site in Austria. The remains suggest that ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned to Earth after their Crew 9 Dragon Spacecraft splashdown ...

Much was made of the potential health risks that stranded Nasa astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams ...