The Western Ghats are older than the Himalayas, formed over 150 million years ago and are home to nearly 7400 plant species.

Birds that build their nests with natural and artificial materials sometimes hold archaeological surprises for us. Certain ...

Scavenging, not hunting, may have sparked the key innovations that made us human.

The computer modeling revealed that prehistoric humans influenced European landscapes through two primary mechanisms: deliberate burning of trees and shrubs to create more open habitats, and hunting ...

Venus figurines, with exaggerated sexual characteristics such as big hips and breasts, began appearing about 40,000 years ago ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million years, but the toxic metal may have actually helped our ...

New research debunks “modern evolution” myth, tracing the insect’s roots to the ancient agricultural and irrigation systems ...

By far the largest ever found of its kind, the spiny fossil predator "would have made enough scampi to feed an army," one ...

Through fluid forms and radiant color, Kato translates spiritual and biological evolution into a visual language of ...

An enzyme in the blue blood has been key to testing vaccines since the 1980s, raising concerns for the crabs’ population. But ...

When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals interbred with human ancestors ...