Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Fungus-farming ants, fossilized footprints and a prehistoric critter named after a Muppet are just a few of the year’s most notable findings ...

Police have shared footage of a driver who reportedly fell asleep at the wheel before crashing into a house as a new year ...

O n Earth today, there is only one species of humans. Us. Homo sapiens to use our scientific term. But this was not always the case – multiple species of humans existed at the same time for most of ...

They’ve lived through the ice age, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and brushed off an atomic blast just a mile away ...

An evolutionary biologist has challenged the long-held theory that the first humans came out of Africa. Dr. Huang Shi from ...