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, ...

The broader value of KNM-ER 64061 is that it adds weight to Turkana as the home of human origins when there is focus on building a science museum in there. A presidential task force established in ...

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...