Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks ...

The conclusions are tentative, but it’s possible our closest relatives relied too much on the advantage gravity gave them.

LSU anthropology professor attended a conference in Croatia, where she was invited to present her research on human ancestors ...

A 2015 study about a thigh bone discovered at the Red Deer Cave deepened the mystery. It suggested the individual weighed ...

A comet that passes by Earth just once every 80,000 years has been spotted in the skies, but it may not survive for much longer.

Humans seem to have been adapted to the last ice age in similar ways to wolves and bears, according to our recent study, ...

Researchers were able to create a reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman despite the ... who created a facial approximation. Dubbed the "Ice Maiden" and "Juanita" by researchers, the life-like ...

Neanderthals had already been extinct for ... But they seemed able to tolerate the ice age conditions while other animals withdrew to refugia. Perhaps most important of all is that among the ...