To say that my church was an ideological microcosm of the larger nation is a bold and audacious statement and requires a bit ...

A groundbreaking new study reveals that ancient human groups inhabited the Mongolian Gobi Desert when it was a lush landscape of lakes and wetlands. The findings, published in PLOS One, push back the ...

Amid the quiet wilderness of Sarawak’s tropical rainforest, the Niah Caves rise majestically – the largest and oldest ...

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often considered the first true human species, was the one to turn the tables on the ...

Ancient symbols, dating back 40,000 years, have been discovered in caves around the globe. These symbols could represent the earliest form of written language, providing a fresh perspective on the ...

Stem-cell models provide evidence that viral DNA sequences that entered the human genome in the past were repurposed to aid early stages of embryonic development. Sherif Khodeer is in the Department ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

As all these discoveries show, the land’s buried secrets have the power to transform our understanding of history, faith, and ...

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

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

Obsidian from the island of Milos, found in Franchthi Cave, shows seafaring in Greece began over 11,000 years ago in the ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...