A patch of scorched earth in eastern England is forcing scientists to rethink one of the most important turning points in ...

Researchers believe the location served as a hunter-gatherer camp frequented by homo heidelbergensis, an early human ancestor ...

The king cobra occupies a singular position in the natural world-one defined not just by its biology but also by an unlikely ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

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 ...

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Research shows that some ants have learned how to treat their wounds, revealing one of the clearest examples of medical ...

The analysis revealed that about 2 per cent of sperm from men in their early 30s contained disease-causing mutations. That ...

Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had ...

Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

The Department of Justice has indicted key members of the Tren de Aragua, considered a foreign terrorist organization by the ...

Octopuses have a way of making familiar rules feel optional. They live on Earth but behave like visitors with a different ...