A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month.

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain—have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of our ...

The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial .” The case ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...