Footprints dating back 800,000 years have been uncovered on a beach in Norfolk, England, offering one of the oldest direct ...

Once written off as extinct, the silver-backed chevrotain forces scientists to confront how much of biodiversity still lives ...

The real revelation, however, came from the men. Men considered a larger penis as an indicator of a rival with both greater ...

Researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT), working with international collaborators, have shown that people in ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...

NEW YORK – Sarepta Therapeutics on Wednesday said it submitted an application to regulators in New Zealand, seeking to begin a first-in-human trial of SRP-1005, the siRNA drug it's developing for ...

New research suggests that early humans may have butchered elephants as far back as 1.8 million years ago, reshaping our understanding of prehistoric hunting practices.