Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This ...

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Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

Scientists mapping a part of the bottom of the ocean humans haven't properly researched before needed to use robots for their ...

We like to draw a line between humans and animals, a clear divide built on memory, empathy, and invention. But that line ...

Ice cores provide important evidence as archival records of global atmospheric composition that has constantly changed.

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.

Research data suggests humans may have nearly gone extinct almost 1 million years ago, but scientists aren't sure why.

Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch ...

Even though there are 8 billion people on Earth today, a catastrophe could send that number much lower within a few decades.