With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

Dec. 23 has been deemed Festivus after it was written into 'Seinfeld' nearly 30 years ago. That episode's writer tells The ...

Every story has a beginning. This one starts with us. Origins: The Journey of Humankind is a cinematic exploration of how our species rose, adapted, and shaped the world.

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

Athens is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It has been a place of human settlement for at least ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

The affluent L.A. neighborhood of Brentwood, where actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead inside their home, has been the scene of a number of high-profile Hollywood ...

The madness of George Will: Last lonely never-Trumper forges on 3 police officers shot 'without warning' while responding to ...

In Bethlehem, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, affirmed that “one of the great messages of ...

Nature is astonishingly diverse. Across the planet’s oceans, forests, grasslands, and cities, living beings interact in ways that defy rigid expectations.

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.