Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

It’s a common mistake to think we came directly from the monkeys or chimps you see at the zoo today, […] ...

Today, millions of children and adolescents undergo braces, and about 20% of new orthodontic patients are adults over the age of 18. Braces help to solve the problems of crowding, crevices, curvature ...

Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...

Living organisms share an ancestor called the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA. LUCA is estimated to have lived ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

That’s not surprising because house cats share about 95% of their DNA with big cats. All cats belong to the family Felidae. But that family is complicated. I asked my friend Haden Kingrey how house ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Over this time, wolves have had to endure numerous changes in the planet’s climate. The cycles of the Ice Ages repeatedly changed their habitat and available prey, providing an insight into how modern ...

The Reform candidate for Gorton and Denton has been expressing his views on what makes someone English or British.

Genetic data strengthens the case that humans first settled Sahul around 60,000 years ago, using multiple seafaring routes.