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

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

Paleoanthropologists have thought that Homo habilis was the first stone-tool maker and meat-eater in our genus. But new ...

Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting in the oldest known evidence of human mummification, according to a new ...

This week in science: The Sun is flaring up unexpectedly; a 60-year diabetes mystery may finally be solved; the oldest human mummies aren't what we expected; and much more! According to NASA, the Sun ...