In 1963, researchers unearthed two Stone Age skeletons that were buried in an embraced position in a cave in Italy. Now, DNA testing has revealed that one of them had a rare genetic condition.

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to ...

Many historians assume that these ancient “bone skates” were utilitarian devices, used for fast transit along frozen rivers ...

What’s particularly exciting about finds like this is that we just so rarely have wood preserved for that long,” the study’s ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

In 1983, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Wassily Leontief asked whether technological change could become so profound that “humans could go the way of horses,” when tractors replaced them in ...

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