Beneath the rolling hills of West Java, Indonesia, lies a site that could challenge the very timeline of human civilization.

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

But when Feb. 14 rolls around, lovers trade letters or cards and give gifts, much like they do in the U.S. If you’ve had enough of heart-shaped trinkets on Valentine’s Day, get inspired by ...

For the first time in decades, the critically endangered Arabian Leopard will return to AlUla at the new the Arabian Leopard ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Experts just found a 3D map that was carved into quartz sandstone likely 13,000 years ago. Located within the famed Segognole ...

Geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 New research analyzing ancient DNA may have finally ... time we have a genetic picture ...

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water ... Sixty labs around the world are analyzing bits of Bennu ...

The giant moa, an extinct group of flightless birds native to New Zealand, once reigned as one of the tallest and most impressive avian species in the world ... within a few centuries of human arrival ...

Ancient Greece ... Mediterranean region. But around 2,150 years ago, the researchers detected “a very strong and abrupt increase" in lead emissions caused by human activities across Greece ...