Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Mysterious red lights falling from space, initially thought to be alien signals, have been identified by scientists as red ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

A major new study has revealed that a group of people in southern Africa lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

In one of the largest African ancient-DNA studies to date, geneticists from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an archaeologist ...

Changing climate conditions have been known to foster human evolution throughout history, especially in Africa, where our story first unfolded. However, new research has flipped the script on a common ...

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...

Many people have a tiny slice of Neanderthal DNA, evidence of interbreeding between the species and ancient human ancestors. Two new studies suggest that interbreeding occurred during a limited period ...

The moment a creature dies, its DNA begins to break down. Half of it degrades every 521 years on average. By about 6.8 million years, even under ideal preservation conditions in cold, stable ...

A wide variety of the exotic animals evolved on Earth over the past 60 million years Riley Black - Science Correspondent The tusks of ancient elephants came in a variety of shapes and sizes.

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...