Ancient wolves may have self-domesticated by staying near humans for food scraps, gradually evolving into early dogs.

Scientists target senescent "zombie cells" with new drugs called senolytics, which may slow aging and prevent diseases like ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.

A CDC program tests wastewater from airplanes, looking for pathogens that may have hitched a ride with passengers on long-haul international flights.

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

Early humans began crafting stone tools more than 3 million years ago by chipping off flakes to form shapes and sharp edges ...

New research reveals that the extinction of New Zealand’s giant, flightless moa was inevitable after human arrival. Using ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ...

Early humans used animal bones to craft tools — more than a million years earlier than scientists previously thought, ...