The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

The Out of Africa theory describes how early human species evolved in Africa before migrating across Eurasia and beyond. This ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Scientists reconstructed the fossil of a skull found in Ethiopia, dating back 1.5 million years, and were stunned by what they learned. Digital reconstruction is an area of technology that allows ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Moktar Diallo left Mali in 2015, dreaming of reaching Europe by boat from Mauritania to Spain's Canary Islands. A decade ...

When we prepare Media Noche, cook rice, slice camote, or add chilis to our food, we take part in histories formed over thousands of years. The New Year feast reflects centuries of interaction across ...

Partners at the International Crane Foundation and The Conservation Fund have secured permanent protection of more than 3,300 ...

Discover which species star in “The 12 Days of Christmas,” how they live, and whether they’d enjoy life as unusual holiday gifts.

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...

The National Security Strategy summons familiar fears that secularism and multiculturalism threaten a divinely inspired social order.