Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Scientists have identified DNA that is around 200,000 years old at an open-air archaeological site in Germany, a place where ...

The preference of some mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group—including those that transmit ...

FILE: Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany, March 2009 ...

Although AI has introduced a new threat in the world of payments fraud, it has also emerged as the analytical backbone of next-generation fraud mitigation systems.

Study argues to move beyond ‘reading genes’ — focus on conserved neural-development networks in humans to improve early screening and identify therapeutic leads.

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

Scientists have discovered new fossil teeth of the earliest known primate relative, Purgatorius. The find shows how ancient ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.