Evidence suggests ancient hunter-gatherers performed the first ever African cremation of a female sometime around 9,500 years ...

Lurking in the vast expanse of the ocean and buried deep in the Siberian permafrost, there are giants—not blue whales and ...

With no humans to leave behind scraps, this urban bird evolved and developed a longer beak, which shrank again once people ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

Pigs across the Pacific can trace their ancestry to Southeast Asian domestic pigs that accompanied early Austronesian-speaking groups as they island-hopped across the region, according to a new ...

Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.

In many Western contexts, organized religion is declining, often due to hypocrisy, politicization or shallow faith. But ...

Research suggests that expressing gratitude can benefit the body in several ways. In the brain, it can lower levels of the ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

In 1998, researchers discovered one of the most complete known human ancestral fossils in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves. Almost two decades later, Ronald Clarke, the paleoanthropologist who had ...

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For hundreds of thousands of years, Homo sapiens evolved under the steady pressures of natural environments—savannas, forests, coasts, deserts, and river valleys that shaped everything from our ...