Scientists say humans' fondness for alcohol traces back to primate ancestors who sought fermented fruits, shaping both ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient ...

Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

Scientists from Arizona State University and other institutions finally assigned a species name to a fossil known as the ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Now, in a study published Tuesday called "Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified," the scientists announced that ...

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, ...

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.

In a groundbreaking discovery that sheds new light on the prehistoric origins of art and human creativity, researchers from ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...