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 ...

C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–Atlas, hailed as one of the “most impressive comets of the year” by some astronomers because of its ...

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

with changes in genes indicating a replacement by new populations of Neanderthal as drastic climate warming changed environmental conditions after the previous ice age and drove other lineages to ...

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas will be visible to the naked eye for the first time in 80,000 years.

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 ...