Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

It's easy to get lost in science fiction when you think about how people will look in the far future, but the question has real scientific roots. Body.

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

But there was one problem: the skull had been crushed and distorted over time. Its true shape had been hidden by pressure, age, and damage. Some features ...

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Young elephants have a lot to learn—what to eat, what to avoid, how to behave around others. When they grow up around their mother and aunts, their development into well-behaved adults may seem ...

"Landman" star Ali Larter and Hayes MacArthur have quite the unconventional relationship, from the way they met and found their home to how they parent.

A TERRIFYING new dinosaur with a swordlike crest has been compared to a beast from “hell”. The prehistoric predator was found ...

A 26-year-old from Maine was left stunned after stumbling upon a drawing for sale in a thrift store that looks eerily like him. The drawing, which predates the man's birth by over two decades, depicts ...

Google is stitching its AI search features into a single workflow. For some users, that means a smarter, more personalized experience, with AI that shapes responses based on real travel preferences ...

Sports fans are in stitches after discovering that Dallas Stars goalie and Team USA hockey Olympian Jake Oettinger looks exactly like the late Charlie Kirk. Tuesday marked five months since Charlie ...