Braces, rubber bands, even jaw surgery—millions endure them in pursuit of a straighter smile. But were misaligned smiles ...

In Kenya’s arid Turkana Basin, a team of scientists has recovered something unexpected from the jaws of long-dead giants.

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into ...

Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

Recent research has pushed the boundaries of ancient protein analysis, retrieving proteins from fossils up to 24 million ...

Two-million-year-old teeth unlock new secrets of ancient human relatives - Scientists made a surprising discovery when ...

A rare Copper Age infant discovery in Italy uncovers surprising genetic connections, shedding new light on prehistoric ...