Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Changing climate conditions have been known to foster human evolution throughout history, especially in Africa, where our story first unfolded. However, new research has flipped the script on a common ...

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

A major new study has revealed that a group of people in southern Africa lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands ...

In one of the largest African ancient-DNA studies to date, geneticists from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an archaeologist ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

Many people have a tiny slice of Neanderthal DNA, evidence of interbreeding between the species and ancient human ancestors. Two new studies suggest that interbreeding occurred during a limited period ...

The moment a creature dies, its DNA begins to break down. Half of it degrades every 521 years on average. By about 6.8 million years, even under ideal preservation conditions in cold, stable ...

A wide variety of the exotic animals evolved on Earth over the past 60 million years Riley Black - Science Correspondent The tusks of ancient elephants came in a variety of shapes and sizes.

For decades, archaeologists believed that cats first started living alongside early farming communities in the Levant — covering parts of today’s Middle East and eastern Mediterranean — around 9,500 ...