A handful of stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the date that human relatives arrived in ...

A human species arrived on the island of Sulawesi in southeast Asia more than 800,000 years earlier than previously known.

Scientists researching in the Galapagos Islands found thriving colonies of a coral long thought to be extinct. According ...

DVUR KRALOVE, Czech Republic (AP) — Four Barbary lion cubs were born recently in a Czech zoo, a vital contribution for a ...

Remains of an extinct species of Bronze Age cattle have been discovered by archaeologists in a cave in the Yorkshire Dales.

A newly published study has found that males of some of our earliest known ancestors were significantly larger than females.

Deep in the Rising Star Cave system lies a mystery of paleoanthropology. Deep in the Rising Star Cave system lies a mystery of paleoanthropology: a chamber filled with the bones of Homo naledi ...

Because their relative isolation encourages speciation, oceanic islands are hotspots of biodiversity. Yet their relatively ...

A new Dartmouth-led study reveals that hominins began eating carbohydrate-rich foods long before their teeth evolved to ...

Tui's work spotlights the surprising ways that human-animal partnerships can advance conservation. While new technology, such ...

The Barbary lion once roamed freely its native northern Africa, but is currently extinct in the wild. A zoo in the Czech Republic is hoping to eventually reintroduce the breed to the wild.