Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...

Weasels are small carnivores with a long body and short legs. They also have a stout skull and sharp teeth. These creatures, ...

In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...

Two fish fossils found in China have given us more insight into what bony fish looked like before separate lineages diverged.

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

Award winning duo James S. A. Corey show humanity’s struggle with staggering alien power in their latest installment of the ...