Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...

A human skull hung on a cave wall in northern Greece for more than 300,000 years. When a villager spotted it in 1960, ...

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 ...

Fossils dredged from the Madura Strait in Indonesia reveal Homo erectus remains dating to around 140,000 years ago. The discovery shows that these early humans once inhabited the now-submerged Sunda ...

He’s been called one of the most viral cheerleaders in the NFL, and on Sunday, Jeremy Greer is going to the Super Bowl. As LGBTQ Nation sibling site OutSports reported last month, the 26-year-old out ...

When the Patriots and Seahawks face off in the Super Bowl this year, the players won't be the only impressive male athletes on the field. Patriots' cheerleader Jeremy Greer (he/they) is currently ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic signature locked into the surrounding sediments. The hominin remains show a blend ...

On Saturday Dec. 7, 2024, João Lucas Reis da Silva, a 24-year-old professional tennis player, did about the most normal thing anyone does these days. He posted a couple selfie on Instagram. It was his ...

To uncover these surprising sexual preferences, researchers examined the sex chromosomes of both modern humans and Neanderthals. In females, these consist of a pair of X chromosomes, while males ...

Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.