New research reveals human habitation in Central African rainforests began 150,000 years ago, challenging previous timelines.

A quiet dig in Romania unearthed more than ancient bones it cracked open our understanding of when and how humans first ...

Here are some important dates in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis in 2013 and died on Monday.

Pope Francis had died at the age of 88, a senior Vatican official has announced. History's first Latin American pontiff ...

Early humans likely used naturally sharp rocks before making their own tools, a new hypothesis suggests, potentially pushing ...

The state antidiscrimination law has a 20-year history that long predates a nationwide debate over transgender athletes in sports.

Imagine standing on a rugged cliff, the wind whipping past as you gaze at ancient lava fields, fossilized dinosaur footprints ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

Previously, the use of ivory was thought to date back about 120,000 years. But a new study, published in the International ...

Now, buried beneath layers of rock and time at the base of Bulgaria’s Balkan Mountains, researchers have found what they were looking for: bone fragments that rewrite the timeline of human migration ...

In this history of women’s friendship ... Saint Petersburg – then known as Leningrad – stands as a testament to human endurance. As the Nazis encircle the city, intent on annihilating ...