Ancient bones buried deep in African soil are rewriting what we thought we knew about our shared human story. New genetic ...

New research suggests the first kiss occurred 16.9-21.5 million years ago between ape ancestors in Africa. Scientists analyzed primate behavior, concluding kissing predates humans and likely occurred ...

The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, arriving roughly 2000 years ago and not because of the Paleolithic expansion of Near East farmers. The findings ...

I headed south for the winter this week. The cold weather let me know that it was time. When I travel to Florida, I fly with ...

In the Luo tribe of East Africa, widows follow a unique tradition of sleeping beside their husband’s dead body. The ritual signals emotional closure and determines when they may remarry. Scroll down ...

Cultural traditions: different cultures have unique naming ceremony, customs such as African often involve traditional ...

Everyone has seen the classic horror film where the token Black person—specifically the Black guy—dies first. But Black ...

A 65-foot-tall mudbrick temple known as the Deffufa was constructed some 4,000 years ago as the spiritual center of the ancient Nubian capital of Kerma in northern Sudan. As the Nile slices through ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

South African photographer Shem Compion has spent more than 20 years documenting the extreme geography and diverse inhabitants of the Great Rift Valley.

We talk about spending billions on temporary water fixes and tradeoffs that only push the eventual showdown with nature down ...