A study of rare fossils has revealed what our ancient human ancestors, the Denisovans, might have looked like.

We tend to think of our bones as solid, unchanging support structures inside our bodies, but a recent study from the ...

Ice Age Europeans apparently weren't homebodies. A new DNA study of remains from caves in France, Spain, and Italy indicates ...

Infants whose mothers smoked cannabis while breastfeeding showed the presence of volatile organic compounds in their urine, a ...

Residents of San Juan de los Plátanos reported tracks of “giant animals” in a stream bed, left 65 million years ago in the ...

Why are we so obsessed with a group of prehistoric humans who disappeared some 40,000 years ago? Ever since the discovery of ...

Why are we so obsessed with a group of prehistoric humans who disappeared some 40,000 years ago? Ever since the discovery of ...

Ancient DNA reveals how Visigoths, Suebi and other Germanic migrants shaped early medieval Iberia without replacing its ...

Ever since the discovery of the first named Neanderthal fossils in 1856, scientists have struggled to make sense of them in ...

The death has taken place of the former matron of the Midlands Regional Hospital, Sr Anna Sloan, a native of Newtown, ...

The anthropology of disaster examines how people experience, interpret, and respond to events within social, cultural, ...

Michigan has experienced a decrease in its biodiversity over the past 200 years. What can we do to ensure an environmentally ...