How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists ...

Two weeks’ walk can be an eternity in prehistory. In southern France’s Rhône Valley, a Neanderthal by the name of “Thorin” ...

Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad ...

Republicans in Congress are trying to remove protections for gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act and block courts ...

Philosophically, academics and global media have to do better to explain why Home sapiens, a sentient and potentially sapient species, has started the Sixth Extinction.

NASA is heading into the holidays with long-awaited good news about its next flagship observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman ...

A study of Neanderthal remains has unearthed evidence of 'light, selective' cannibalism targeting women and girls around ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

The Pecos River murals are a stunning collection of monumental, multicolored rock paintings in limestone rock shelters across ...

Researchers have found footprints of large, bone-crushing dogs in the 12 million-year-old Ashfall Fossil Beds in northeastern ...