Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern ...
DNA from European fossils dating back 45,000 years offers new clues to how our species spread across the world.
NASA's Lucy spacecraft will perform a close flyby of Earth on December 12, utilizing a gravity assist to adjust its ...
The discovery of Australopithecus afarensis, a human-like being with short legs and a small stature, left scientists ...
The world’s oldest-known wild bird Wisdom has laid a new egg at the age of 74 after returning to the Midway Atoll National ...
The world’s oldest known wild bird, 74, makes an annual pilgrimage to the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. But each ...
At the age of 74, parenting can be quite the adventure. But for one venerable albatross named Wisdom, it seems the journey is ...
The world's oldest known bird, Wisdom, laid an egg at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at 74 years old. Watch the video.
Years ago, after the Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination based on sex, New York City's oldest ale house was also one ...
Fossilised remains of 'Lucy', considered ancestor of the human species, was found 50 years ago Around 3.2 million years ago, in what is now present-day Ethiopia, a tiny human made it to the fossil ...
The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...
It has now been 50 years since Lucy’s skeleton was found on that Ethiopian slope, and over the decades she has become an iconic figure in the story of human evolution. "Lucy" may not sound like ...