New research finds the disappearance of glaciers in the Sierra Nevada will be unprecedented in the human history of North ...

A molecular biogerontology professor believes we’ve only started to move toward holding off aging, and that humans will eventually have the potential to live for 1,000 to 20,000 years. Technology not ...

New research reveals ancient camel engravings in Saudi Arabia may have guided early humans to seasonal water sources, pushing ...

A new study claims that Yunxian-2, a human skull found decades ago in China, suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought. It also ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully preserved after death by being smoke-dried – a ...

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practiced by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and beyond as far back as 12,000 years ago, my colleagues and I report in new ...