Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

This video examines the evolutionary history of pigs and how their ancient ancestors possessed traits far more powerful than those of modern domestic swine. Scientists explain how early pig species ...

A newly published scientific study is reigniting debate over human evolution in Africa after researchers suggested that the ...

Hunter-gatherer genes likely favoured during the last Ice Age could be helping modern-day Italians live longer life ...

Researchers analyzed 333 Italian centenarians and compared their genetic composition to 103 ancient genomes to investigate ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back ...

In the age of dinosaurs, before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon, a monstrous shark prowled the waters off ...