A US-based biotech company has successfully sequenced the genetic codes of preserved plants, some of which date back more ...

Buried deep in a South African cave, 2.2 million-year-old teeth may hold the genetic signature of a mysterious human relative ...

A leading archaeologist has warned of destruction faced by a 50,000-year-old rock art site on the remote Western Australian ...

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A fossilized elephant skull found in the Kashmir Valley is reshaping how scientists understand an ancient giant’s past.

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In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, Henry Gee shows how we arrived at this crucial moment in history, beginning his story deep in the palaeolithic past and charting our dramatic rise from one ...

Some animals are so rare, they are more like myths than living, breathing organisms. Take the Upemba lechwe, for example.

Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi once asked, “if we live in an infinite universe with infinite capacity for life, why ...

An investigation is underway following the discovery of one of Ireland’s oldest breeding white-tailed eagles, Caimin (Y) who ...