This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, ...

A startling discovery has reignited one of science’s oldest questions: where did life truly begin? Researchers analyzing a ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ...

An international team of biologists, including those at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, have discovered that the ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

But life doesn’t exactly stop there. In fact, the professionals found that the maximum age a human female is likely to live ...

In an April 11, 2025, letter to Harvard University President Alan Garber and Harvard Corporation Lead Member Penny Pritzker, ...

The bowhead whale (Bowhead whale) is the longest-living mammal on Earth, surviving for over 200 years. Scientists recently ...

A Halifax man who used drugs, alcohol and violence to force young females into the sex trade has been handed a 15-year prison ...

The first animals must also have invented ways to produce the many different kinds of cells we have today; muscle cells, ...