An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for Ancestor X ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans.

Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans.

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

Footage shows how researchers discovers fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico.

Authorities dated the footprints back to the early first century A.D. — the “time of Boudicca, Jesus and the height of the ...

One eye-catching detail is the researchers’ estimate that the bone likely belonged to a small female, about 24 kg, and nicknamed “Diva.” Spassov noted the fossil seems to sit somewhere between older, ...

"Breakthrough: Telescopes - The Truth is Out There" Premieres March 5 SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND / ACCESS Newswire / March ...

A new life-cycle analysis reveals that bio-based plastics are better for the climate but worse for biodiversity. The greenest ...

Invisible for 115,000 years, these chilling "ghost fossils" just emerged from the burning sands of the Nefud Desert to rewrite human history. The arid expanse of the Nefud Desert in the northern ...