New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...
Three major archaeological discoveries—from submerged Homo erectus sites in Indonesia, to a shell-built island in Florida, to a vast trove of Egyptian ostraca—are offering unprecedented insights into ...
Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that quietly slipped into our chromosomes and never left. By tracing this viral ...
What can bones tell us about life millions of years ago? A paleobiologist decodes chemical clues to uncover how animals lived ...
Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction reveals the visage of one of our oldest close human relatives, researchers ...
Scientists uncover an ancient Ethiopian site preserving daily life, movement, and death from the Middle Stone Age.