In a universe where history is usually measured in billions of years, a relic that may have existed before time as we know it ...

The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

In 1998, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke and his research team discovered the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

A new analysis of some fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking may go back 7 million years in the human family tree.

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

“ Sahelanthropus tchadensis was essentially a bipedal ape that possessed a chimpanzee-sized brain and likely spent a ...