Researchers in China have uncovered 55,000-year-old advanced tools, suggesting an unknown human species matched Neanderthal ...

Researchers from the Physics and Biology Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have discovered two ...

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans' neighbors, new technologies meant something ... years ...

During his visit, Kraus found several “large” snakes with white chins, the study said. Intrigued, he took a closer look at the animals, compared them with other known species and soon realized he’d ...

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans' neighbors ... because it includes the first appearance of our species, our arrival into many parts of the world for the ...

On an island in Papua New Guinea, a 3-foot-long creature with a black tongue made itself at home in a village garden — or it tried to, at least. Locals spotted the “smooth” animal and caught it. They ...

An analysis of a jawbone found off the Taiwanese coast reveals it belonged to a Denisovan, a mysterious human species that ...

Hantavirus recently made news headlines as the cause of death for Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, but little ...

This UNESCO World Heritage Site harbors exceptional levels of species found nowhere else on Earth, though many remain undocumented and are threatened by human development. “[Some] species may ...

A mapping expedition in the Tlayócoc cave in Mexico led a professional cave explorer to a hidden chamber containing shocking evidence of an extinct civilization.

Researchers from the Physics and Biology Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have discovered two species of tapeworms, or ...