A 150,000-year-old site in Côte d'Ivoire nearly doubles previous estimates of how long ago humans first lived in rainforests.

If you’re the sort of person that doesn’t change their sheets regularly then you are officially less hygienic than a ...

More than 1,500 massive underground tunnels in Brazil have puzzled researchers for years. The claw marks on the walls point ...

When a child develops kidney failure or a rare bone disorder, the cause can seem painfully immediate. It may be a single ...

Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of ...

A genetic mutation carried by Homo erectus, a human ancestor who disappeared roughly 250,000 years ago, has been identified ...

Recent DNA tests on the Paracas skulls have not confirmed their alien origins, reigniting debates about their extraterrestrial connections.

Peru's first great empire left no written records. Now, archaeologists are piecing together who the Wari were with the help ...

Scientists uncovered evidence that human blood cells may trace their origins back to single-celled ancestors that lived 700 ...

Before common pigeons were considered urban pests, people domesticated them and relied on them for meat, fertilizer, messages and more. A new study suggests humans have lived alongside the winged ...

A set of burned human bones unearthed in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift may hold the oldest known evidence of cremation, pushing a ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...