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 ...

Ella Al-Shamahi explores the complexities of our past by meeting the fascinating human species we once shared the planet with ...

It took more than a century for researchers to prove that Neanderthals were actually quite intelligent and that they ...

Baba Vanga, the legendary Bulgarian mystic often referred to as the “Nostradamus of the Balkans,” continues to fascinate and ...

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In the age of dinosaurs—before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon—a monstrous shark prowled the waters off ...

Mammals keep evolving into anteaters, eating only ants and termites, at least 12 times since the age the dinosaurs.

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Over the last century of cinematic sci-fi, movies like Planet of the Apes and The Thing have produced some of the most ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than ...