It was a savannah where the first human populations settled. However, in a recent study, mummies with different DNA to ours have been discovered, in research led by archaeogeneticist Nada Salem of ...

Sometimes we get lucky—like a team did when it located a fossil of a 520-million-year-old worm larva that still had its brain and guts intact. That “almost perfect preservation” made the ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Two 7,000-year-old mummies unearthed in present-day Libya have led to the identification of a previously unknown human lineage, according to a new study published in Nature on ...

Discovered 25 years ago, a 444-million-year-old marine arthropod fossil stumped paleontologists, as they couldn’t identify its exact species. Sarah Gabbot, who originally discovered the specimen ...

In an interview, the 66-year-old former Doctor Who actor from Glasgow opened up about his admiration for Lanarkshire-born Ms Collins, a fellow thespian who recently worked as the creative director ...

Roughly two million years old, this tool, known as the Kanjera stone, was part of a new Stone Age technology that helped make better-fed, smarter hominins. On the Homa Peninsula in southwestern ...

Found at the Takarkori rock shelter in Libya, these mummies, the remains of female herders, belong to a population that defies the genetic expectations researchers had based on the region’s history.

Now, five years later, scientists have that the reddish liquid was wine—Roman wine, some 2,000 years old, and the oldest ever discovered in liquid form. But it gets weirder still. The urn also ...

Primates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, such as capuchins and macaques; prosimians, like lemurs and tarsiers ...