Link found between super-agers, or people with exceptional longevity, to inherited DNA from Ice Age hunter-gatherer ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

A year later, the Fox News host Bill O’Reilly pressed Trump on his repeated expressions of respect for Putin. When O’Reilly ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

This National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, my Administration renews our commitment to end the evil of human trafficking, restore ...

New UChicago Divinity School course uses religious texts and popular sci-fi to shed light on what it means to be human ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

The judge overseeing the Nicolás Maduro prosecution is a 92-year-old native New Yorker who’s willing to take unpopular ...

The Alien franchise has a history of using the same actors for multiple roles. In a universe where androids look human, and ...