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 ...

In 2021, scientists made a breakthrough when they classified a 140,000-year-old skull from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, as ...

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 ...

But the next time you squash one of these bloodsuckers, consider this: you are participating in a bitter rivalry that goes back to the time of Homo erectus. It turns out that mosquitoes have been ...

Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on the planet, killing hundreds of thousands of people every year by transmitting malaria ...