An investigation is ongoing in New Hampshire after a duck hunter found human remains in Merrimack River over the weekend.

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

A North Carolina man was charged Tuesday with four counts of murder after telling authorities that he had killed his children ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...

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

Our bond with our pets often outlives their short lifespans. Some say they’re only borrowed from heaven — gifts meant to ...

Archaeologists have recently challenged the long-held belief that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia is the world’s oldest ...

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Malaria remains one of the world's most devastating infectious diseases, claiming more than half a million lives each year.