The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

The earliest rhino ancestors were much smaller—about the size of today’s dogs—and lacked horns. Over millions of years of evolution, some rhino species grew to incredible sizes, including the ...

“The ancestors are there. We actually used to put our people in the trees,” she said, speaking of traditional burial practices of the Gitlan of the Tsimshian Nation. Ryan explained that her ancestors ...

Some trees were flush with blossoms, while others had only begun to bud. Spectacular and ancient and delicate as the trees were, I didn’t immediately see them as ancestors or children or nymphs.

The Tswana, of Botswana and South Africa, believed that Mohoohoo, the white rhino, emerged from the same cave as their own original ancestor, and hold the animal in high regard.

The iconic, fortress of an animal most of us know as the woolly rhino today roamed across Europe and Asia throughout the Ice Ages. But research published in the journal Science in 2011 described a ...

Based on their study, looking at everything from the layers of sediment to the bones preserved at the site, the researchers think this was once a lake surrounded by a lush landscape made up of birch ...

Rhianna Drummond-Clarke When human ancestors evolved to walk upright, they may have done so in trees, suggests new research published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.

Humans’ ability to walk upright on two legs may have evolved in trees, rather than on the ground, according to scientists studying wild chimpanzees in Tanzania.