For tens of thousands of years, early humans painted animals on cave walls with incredible realism - but almost never painted themselves. Faces were missing, bodies were simplified, and human ...

President Donald Trump — and many in the Republican Party — has been outspoken about the LGBT community in recent years, with a focus on transgender people in particular, telling a New York City crowd ...

Native to the arctic waters of the northern hemisphere, the Bowhead whale can live for centuries, and now scientists think ...

Long ago, some saltwater fish adapted to freshwater — and in doing so, developed an extraordinary sense of hearing rivaling ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

Alan Douglas Bruce entered an Alford plea last week in the killing and dismembering of 47-year-old Patrick Shelton. Bruce also pleaded guilty to felony destruction of evidence.

A fascinating fossil discovery in Kenya is changing how scientists see Paranthropus boisei, an ancient human relative that ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

A human skull believed to be around 4,270 years old was discovered along the bank of Whitewater River earlier this year and ...

The discovery could have implications for the College of Charleston’s plans to build a new dorm on the site of a historic ...