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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

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

After more than six decades, 91-year-old rebel leader Thuingaleng Muivah has returned to his home village in India.

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...