New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...

New research has used DNA found in sediment to reveal new information about the human and animal populations that preceded ...

The Denisovans provided the genetic difference for Asian and Australid populations, two of the four “root races” from which ...

For years, scientists have known that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred, leaving behind genetic traces that still ...

12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes ... New Insights Into the Denisovans: New Hominin Group That Interbred With Modern Day Humans Nov. 8, 2024 — Scientists believe ...

Food, music and culture have made the Italian southern city of Naples famous around the globe. But there’s another Neapolitan tradition that fascinates locals and visitors alike: the cornicello, an ...

In a few short weeks, he has made himself, so very intentionally, the omni-present president. Americans could go weeks without noticing Joe Biden. The world can't get through a day without ...

In the Arizona desert, researchers are learning so much more about the peoples who have inhabited this land since antiquity ...

According to a new exhibition in Amsterdam, centuries of human intervention turned the animal into “a wool-producing machine ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

A diary entry on his 28th birthday, Feb. 22, 1760, reveals a busy day installing a fence around ... the weather on his birthday than any present he received — unless it was a mule.” ...