They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

Using 3D technology and other methods, the team identified Sahelanthropus’s femoral tubercle, which is the point of ...

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

As we look back over the past 20 years, certain villains stand out for their ability to linger in our minds long after the ...

A quarter of a century ago--way back when Bill Clinton was president, Saddam Hussein was still running Iraq, and your cellphone, if you had one, was a brick--CNN and USA Today commissioned a poll by ...

The Department of State has instructed U.S. embassies located in Western nations to report human rights abuses occurring ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...

Officials revealed that an alleged human smuggling operation involving over a dozen individuals has been uncovered inside a Texas home. Authorities with the Texas Department of Public Safety and ...