The stray dogs that roam the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become unlikely protagonists in a scientific debate about how life ...

Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have found the earliest known traces of humans deliberately kindling fire, ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

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

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic ...

Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a beautifully preserved face of a 1.5-million-year-old human ancestor—the first complete Early Pleistocene hominin cranium from the Horn ...

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In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of the genomes of 28 people who lived between 10,200 ...

Pabitra Saikia is a Global Agile Program Management leader who currently serves as VP, Senior Change Delivery Lead at Truist Bank. Every enterprise today is, in essence, a technology organization. The ...

New fossils from Ethiopia reveal that early Homo and Australopithecus species lived side by side 2.6 million years ago. Credit: Shutterstock New findings reveal the geological age, context, and ...