During the filming of Django Unchained, Leonardo DiCaprio's hand was severely cut during a dinner scene. He continued his performance, a te...

Research at Uganda's Kibale National Park reveals chimpanzees engage in prolonged, organized warfare, challenging the notion that war is ex...

A recent in-depth study has revealed that children were sacrificed in the city of Chichen Itza, built on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.

Scientists have completed an updated genome of Oetzi the Iceman, determining that the ancient hunter was mostly descended from farmers from...

The Steppe hypothesis proposes the origin to be in the Pontic-Caspian Steppe around 6000 years ago, while the farming one suggests an older...

The study was led by researchers from Northwest University in China and a team including the University of Bristol (UK) and the University ...

Svante Paabo and colleagues extracted and sequenced the first Neanderthal genome from ancient bones. He also brought to light the existence...

Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for his discoveries on human evolution that provided key insi...

London, Oct 6 (IANS) Neanderthal genes have contributed to human skin tone, hair colour, sleep patterns, mood, and even a person's smoking ...

Washington, April 28 (IANS) An international team of researchers has successfully retrieved human DNA in cave sediments where no skeletal r...

Washington, Oct 12 (IANS) It appears our closest relatives, apes, might also be able to understand what others are thinking, even when it d...

London, Sep 21 (IANS) Neanderthals were far smarter than previously thought as researchers have confirmed that our ancient cousins were res...

An international team of researchers has discovered 8,000 Sumatran orangutans which were as yet uncounted. The huge number of this critical...

The findings suggest that friendship based on trust has evolved much earlier than previously thought.

Early modern humans interbred with Neanderthals when they first came to Europe, DNA analysis of a 40,000-year-old jawbone suggests.

Young children are just as likely to respond to the needs of another individual as they are to their own.

Running with less padded shoes reduces deleterious impacts.