Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practised or taught tool-making techniques using ...

Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery. They found intertwined skeletal remains in a mass ...

A human appetite hormone, bombesin, also controls feeding in starfish, showing it evolved over 500 million years ago. A team ...

Dozens of amphibians perished together on an ancient floodplain around 230 million years ago, according to a study published ...

Jamie Gustafson draws dinosaurs, sharks and pretty much anything else from the natural world. Some of his clients have ...

Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a ...

(Photo by Yu Xiangquan/Xinhua) A total of 79 ancient sites, including river terrace ... fourth national cultural relics survey, the Global Times learned from the Guangxi Institute of Cultural ...

A new DNA study reveals that dark skin was common among early Europeans for much longer than previously believed. Pale skin became prevalent only around 3,000 years ago. The research suggests that ...

"It is possibly the first evidence of the use of natural shapes for varied activities, and this happened repeatedly over more than 1 million years of human evolution at Melka Kunture," says Mussi.

One of the smallest human relatives ever found has been unearthed in South Africa. Standing just 3 feet, 4.5 inches (1.03 meters) tall, the adult Paranthropus robustus, who died 2 million years ...

ANKARA - Human Rights Watch Turkey Director Emma Sinclair-Webb condemned the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and others from the Istanbul municipality on Wednesday, calling it a ...

The internet’s romantic tale of an anglerfish chasing sunlight may be sweet, but it’s far from the truth.