A groundbreaking discovery in Antarctica has left scientists both amazed and baffled: the oldest human remains ever found.

The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago.

Screwworms will not compromise food safety in the U.S. But there is work to do. Screwworms can be re-eradicated with the ...

It is not yet the promised land of abundance, not the collapse of apocalypse, but a liminal space between what was and what ...

Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...

Trump’s new rule barring undocumented immigrants from Head Start unfairly punishes families and weakens the social safety net ...

For 60 years, Head Start has provided child care for the most vulnerable children in the United States with little controversy.

In her new show, Ella Al-Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our ...

From intimate mating moments of shorebirds to scenic views of soaring raptors, here are the runner-up images in our annual ...

A herd of wild elephants walks from the forest to the road at the edge of a village in Yuxi, Southwest China's Yunnan ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...