By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

A new study by Prof. Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...

As Caterpillar celebrates is 100th anniversary, CIO Jamie Engstrom is preparing the company to thrive in its second century with better use of data and AI.

"Make this cat (male/female) as a real person, pose (optional) keep everything else in the image the same," a Reddit user ...

It turns out that we animals who crave sugar have a very important historical biological need for it: Sugar means calories.

Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we think we know about the timeline or the circumstances under which ...

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A recent discovery of a Denisovan jawbone off Taiwan's coast provides new insights into this elusive archaic human lineage, illustrating their wide geographical spread across Eurasia. Despite ...

Scientists have discovered that an ancient jawbone found in Taiwan belonged to Denisovans, a little-known extinct group closely related to Neanderthals and modern humans. The jawbone fragment ...

The results, published this week in Nature magazine by an international team of 123 researchers, help deepen people's understanding of human evolution and protect endangered ape populations.