Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

With its elongated snout and almost prehistoric appearance, this crocodile stands apart from every other species alive today. Found mainly in a few river systems, its highly specialized hunting style ...

Gold is on track for its best year since 1979. The last time the precious metal had such a strong stretch, Jimmy Carter was ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

The parts of the skeleton – a skull cap, molar and thigh bone – were the first known specimens of Homo erectus ...

A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how ...

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, ...

IF YOU'VE ever watched your cat stare intensely out the window at a bird, making that peculiar "ek-ek-ek" chattering sound ...

From compelling stories to non-fiction, books can spark ideas that help us navigate the climate crisis. As part of The ...

For the past 25 years, novelist and publisher Anuradha Roy has called the Himalaya her home and her world. In Called by the ...