A groundbreaking discovery on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi reveals that early hominins crossed treacherous seas over a ...

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

The 1.8-million-year-old jawbone, found in a site no bigger than two parking spots, upends the timeline of humans migrating from Africa.

Long before modern humans appeared in Africa about 300,000 years ago, our ancestors faced a crisis that almost ended the ...

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 ...

The sky above us is a complex ecosystem, just like the land and sea. A new field of research is bringing a fresh ...

The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find suggests that hominins may have ventured out of Africa much earlier than ...

A new report reveals that more than 14,000 migrants who had hoped to cross into the U.S. have turned back and reversed course due to the Trump administration's border enforcement policies.

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