The human evolutionary tree can be complicated—but understanding where hominids end and hominins begin reveals how we fit ...

Forensic evaluation can be applied to bodies that are long dead and poorly preserved. Dental records, DNA analysis, and ...

Along the dry shores of northern Kenya, a long turquoise lake quietly records the tug of deep forces. Lake Turkana looks ...

Hunting an entire herd of aurochs was no mean feat, and would have required sophisticated levels of cooperation and ...

Whether they are a Siamese, Persian, Maine Coon, or Domestic Shorthair, there are hundreds of millions of cats living with ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

New research shows that domestic dogs began diversifying at least 11,000 years ago, long before modern breeding. A major ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

Newly analyzed Arctic fossils show that marine ecosystems recovered astonishingly fast after the “great dying.” More than 30,000 teeth, bones, and other fossil fragments from a 249-million-year-old ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines social media as: “forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to ...

On September 16, Mexicans around the globe will celebrate the anniversary of the country’s independence from Spain. The day is marked by a national holiday in Mexico, a reenactment of a historic ...