New research reveals surprising evidence of human habitation on Malta more than one thousand years earlier than previously ...

Two leg bones found on the seabed near Taiwan have been identified as Denisovans, and their size suggests these hominins ...

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

Dogs have been shaping—and being shaped by—humans for about 15,000 years, evolving from early partners of hunter-gatherers ...

WASHINGTON — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age.

Humans, as an evolutionary group, are often said to be losing their sense of smell. “But our sense of smell is not simply ...

For millennia, humans have told stories about stealing fire from the gods. In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus gifts fire to humanity after sneaking it away from the gods’ home on Mount Olympus.