Research in Honduras shows that humans began selecting for larger fruits with thicker rinds as early as 7,500 years ago—long ...

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

Researchers have uncovered evidence that European hunter-gatherers came into contact with North Africans as early as 8,500 ...

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.

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

"Early warning could mean the difference between life and millions of deaths," said Admiral Brett Giroir, President Trump's COVID testing czar at the height of the pandemic in 2020 and now an ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.