Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

The extinct flightless pigeon has captured imaginations for over 400 years. Experts and artists are now revealing how much we ...

A human rib discovered high in the Pyrenees suggests that someone survived a shot in the back several millennia ago.

A new study of two-million-year-old tooth enamel has revealed surprising genetic diversity in Paranthropus robustus, a ...

N eanderthals and Homo sapiens repeatedly interbred, shared genes, and merged populations over the course of nearly 250,000 ...