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

Ancient stone tools that were discovered in the Tunel Wielki cave in Poland around 50 years ago have been re-examined and ...

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

Four Barbary lion cubs have been born in a Czech zoo, marking a vital step for the rare animal that is extinct in the wild ...

Human extinction would have sweeping ecological consequences across the planet, potentially giving rise to new species and climates ...

Human evolution: Facts about the past 300,000 years of Homo sapiens 140,000 year old bones of our ancient ancestors found on sea floor, revealing secrets of extinct human species ...

A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas, one of the most extreme and challenging environments on Earth.

Many of the species found by the researchers are now extinct, but the findings show that there was once a time when these animals were all thriving in the region.

Proteins — biological building blocks encoded by the genome — are hardier than DNA and can push researchers’ abilities to use molecules to understand ancient species deeper into the past.

Although only one species of hominin (a tribe of the subfamily Homininae) exists on the planet today—good ole Homo sapiens —the human family, throughout more geologically-recent Earth history ...

Texas genetics engineering company Colossal Biosciences is teaming with filmmaker Peter Jackson and New Zealand experts to bring back another species.

Historical and current population DNA reveals that there are at least 12 species of rocket frogs, three of which are already extinct ...