Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

Our readers look back to the oldest known musical instrument and consider the role music had in bringing communities together ...

The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...

But in that short time, we’ve discovered about two dozen species of human ancestors in Europe, Africa, and Asia—which you can see mapped out in the infographic below. The first known fossils ...

Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of 'spindle whorls,' used to spin fibers into ...

A Canadian teenager is hospitalized in critical condition with suspected bird flu, health officials reported Tuesday.

The first shipment of FDA-approved cervical screening self-tests has gone out with hopes they will help prevent cervical ...

President-elect Trump’s expected decision to nominate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as his secretary of State and Rep. Mike Waltz ...

Public-health officials in British Columbia declined to provide any new details Monday about their investigation into how a ...

These miniature immune system models — known as human immune organoids — mimic the real-life environment where immune cells ...