Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...

February unlocks one of the best-kept secrets in Los Angeles. Crowds thin out, sunshine lingers, and the city opens up in ...

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

A new study explains how climbing down trees helped shape upright posture in early primates and changed the course of evolution.

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo ...

“Our findings challenge the prevailing view that tigers once took refuge in Japan and that cave lion distribution was limited ...

Imagine something alive today that was already ancient when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth. Now imagine that it spent ...