People have always avoided conflict, and guarded their independence, by striking out for greener pastures. Land-farers spread ...

Its distorted form has prevented scientists for years from definitively positioning it on the human family tree. Now, due to the recent scanning and digital reconstruction, the skull, according to ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

A million-year-old skull discovered in China could rewrite the history of human evolution. A new analysis of the skull published in Science suggests that our species may have emerged half a million ...

The heat trapped by CO2 and other greenhouse gases is turbocharging our climate and leading to more extreme weather,” said ...

Nikkolas Smith, the bestselling illustrator, has a new children's book that takes a look at the innovative, creative dawn of our species. The illustrator Nikkolas Smith, surrounded by his original ...

In the powerful new history “The Zorg,” Siddharth Kara tells a shocking story of mass killing, human baseness and the seeds ...

Although the state bird of Illinois is the northern cardinal, in the 1800s it might have been the greater prairie chicken. The grouse or boomer, as it was known back then, was once the most numerous ...