Photo provided to China Daily] High on a cliff in Lushan county of Pingdingshan city, Central China's Henan province, a small cave is rewriting the story of the region's earliest modern humans. The ...

A study of women and girls in a part of South Africa with high levels of HIV infection has shown that the virus has the ...

Ancient DNA from a megalithic tomb near Paris reveals a dramatic population collapse followed by the arrival of entirely new ...

The settlement of coastlines and the use of marine food resources, often collectively referred to as coastal adaptations, feature prominently in global ...

This important study probes the long-standing failure to resolve evolutionary relationships between the classical "spiralian" taxa - i.e., annelids, molluscs, brachiopods, platyhelminths and ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

As algorithms begin to testify in our courtrooms, the scales of justice are facing a digital recalibration that challenges ...

Fossil evidence suggests there were real ‘Kraken’ – finned octopuses who fed on large animals at the top of the food chain – ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

Researchers discovered evidence of enormous Kraken-like creatures who hunted in the seas some 100 million years ago, ...