Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who rose from the vice presidency to become the country’s first female leader in ...

Aging has always been comedy gold, and old-school cartoonists milked it for every giggle. From the 1800s into the early 1900s ...

Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ...

A new documentary puts viewers in the shoes of Neanderthals and early humans, giving an intimate glimpse into humans’ ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Imagine walking out of Africa into a world filled with towering predators and colossal beasts. Early humans didn’t just survive the Ice Age — they lived among creatures now lost to time. These ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

Stem-cell models provide evidence that viral DNA sequences that entered the human genome in the past were repurposed to aid early stages of embryonic development. Sherif Khodeer is in the Department ...