Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

The Sacred Dawn of Ramadan ndash; A Journey Begins By the Zongo Caucus Coordinator, UK and Ireland Chapter The long awaited ...

More than 3,000 service members have received our nation’s highest military honor since 1863. Only one museum tells their stories.

Meteorologists with the National Weather Service say they never know what they'll encounter during a storm survey and while ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Dr Merijn van de Laar, a Dutch scientist who has studied and treated sleep problems all his career, tells Anna Bonet the ...

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short — and ended up as a leopard's lunch.

Even so, sometimes those same people laugh at toilet humor: it’s about all the things that unite us as humans, as Chaucer ...

Homo sapiens (that’s us) did not descend from a neat, single lineage. Instead, modern humans can link their heritage back to ...

Discoveries in Tinshemet Cave reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than originally thought.