Editor in chief Nancy Shute recounts the 50-year anniversary of the hominid's discovery, which upended the study of human evolution.

Jon Sperling secretly spread a non-native species across the Northeast. “It’s insane what this guy was doing,” a biologist ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first human case of bird flu in Oregon, on Friday.

Microscopic analysis by Montana scientists has revealed the first detailed structure of the pathogen that causes chronic ...

Over 41,000 years ago, Tasmania's first human inhabitants, the Aboriginal Tasmanians, utilized fire to manage and modify ...

Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, ...

With migratory waterfowl back for the cold seasons, Oregon is the first state to report new spike in avian flu detections ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

On November 12 at UCSD the Students for Justice in Palestine held a secret meeting in La Jolla in order to invite Dr. Ahmed ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

The species was named Haplosyllis anthogorgicola, and it is incredibly small. After the first description of the species, the ...

"It's a common misconception that humans evolved suddenly and neatly from one common ancestor, but the more we learn the more we realize interbreeding with different hominins occurred and helped to ...