The ancient cranium - discovered in Petralona Cave, about 22 miles south-east of Thessaloniki in Greece - is less than ...

Long before modern humans appeared in Africa about 300,000 years ago, our ancestors faced a crisis that almost ended the lineage entirely. A groundbreaking study has revealed that between 930,000 and ...

Introduction of the organized gambling venues or halls over informal betting was another milestone in the history of casino games. Whereas Western Europe tended to outlaw gambling as a vice, other ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest example of interbreeding between the two groups.

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian—the ...

But the new study also suggests that the ilium underwent a second major change millions of years later, when humans evolved ...

Throughout human history, humans have seen themselves as the masters of the universe — a species destined to dominate the natural world. Yet, ...

Growing up in Medicine Hat, Alberta, about 125 kilometres southeast of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Andre Mueller was fascinated ...

Why can AI drive cars and airplanes, defeat chess masters, yet struggle to arrange dishes in a dishwasher? The answer lies ...

AI conundrum is a story that has been retold for millennia, and the current zeitgeist was predicted more than 30 years ago, ...

The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find suggests that hominins may have ventured out of Africa much earlier than ...

The dawn of agriculture in the Neolithic was a major development in the evolution of modern human culture. Although ...