At least nine beavers and a vole have been found dead across Utah after an unusual outbreak of tularemia, a disease that can also infect...
After waves of Homo sapiens left Africa, they left few traces of their whereabouts until they reappeared in Eurasia 20,000 years later....
Proteins found in tiny, indestructible tardigrades could potentially be a key ingredient in slowing the aging process in humans, scientists...
Just like humans can be allergic to cats and dogs, these Pets can be allergic to us. (Image credit: Jirakan via Getty Images) Allergies...
As early humans evolved from ape-like ancestors, they came down from the trees, began to walk upright and lost their fur. But without...
Russia's space agency Roscosmos has announced plans to work with China to build an automated nuclear reactor on the moon by 2035. The...
Starting about 7,000 years ago, ancient humans in what is now northeastern Spain buried their dead deep in a cave, creating a necropolis...
Stone tools in Ukraine dated to 1.4 million years ago may be the earliest solid evidence of humans in Europe, a new study reveals....
Approximately 25 million years ago, an ancestor of both humans and apes genetically diverged from monkeys and lost its tail. No one...
The world is filled with heartwarming and touching moments, and some of the most touching involve the interactions between humans and...
It has long been debated whether animals can smell fear in humans. Unfortunately, answering this age-old question isn't as simple as...
Roughly 375 million years ago, a funny-looking fish named Tiktaalik ventured ashore using novel adaptations: lobed fins to propel itself...
The first humans to settle the Amazon Basin arrived around 13,000 years ago as part of a mass migration that quickly swept across the...
Captain Robert Falcon Scott witnessed an extraordinary scene during his ill-fated Antarctic expedition when, on Jan. 5, 1911, his photographer...
The human craving to know and understand is the driving force behind our development as individuals and even our success as a species....
The earliest human civilizations appeared between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago; since then, humans as a species have been entirely at...
For centuries, the "Unicorn Cave," or "Einhornhöhle," in central Germany has been famous for its many thousands of bones. In medieval...
Since the late 1800s, we've known that other types of humans once roamed our planet. At that time, scientists recognized that fossils...
