Nearly 150 high school students were excused from a statewide exam after they were taught about the wrong Caesar in history ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...

Jane Goodall’s life included years of detailed field observations and decades of tirelessly advocating for great ape ...

New research suggests the origins of modern humans may have begun by the sea in southern Africa 70,000 years ago.

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...

Scientists found a new coronavirus in Brazilian bats, named BRZ batCoV. This virus shares a genetic feature with SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-1 ...

In conversation with professor Alia Crum, Sakamoto explores the psychology of how our everyday mindsets shape meaning.

The Falls of the Ohio, an area important to Louisville's history, was preserved in the 1990s with the opening of a state park ...

A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...

New research in Sweden has produced a "blueprint" revealing how the human heart is built during prenatal development. It ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...