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

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

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

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

New imaging has upended a decades-old assumption about Japan’s earliest “humans.” The finding doesn’t erase the past—it ...

Week 7 of the 2025 NFL regular season is underway. The seventh week of the 2025 NFL regular season is highlighted by the ...

An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...

Australia has one of the longest histories of continuous human occupation outside Africa. But who exactly were the first people to settle there? Such a question has obvious political implications and ...