A drop in the number of huge animals 200,000 years ago may have forced ancient humans to abandon heavy-duty stone tools in favour of lightweight toolkits to hunt smaller animals. That’s according to a ...

BEIJING, April 3 (Reuters) - China's cyberspace regulator issued draft regulations on Friday to oversee the development online of digital humans, requiring clear labelling and banning services that ...

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Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier than some recent theories suggested. By tracing maternal DNA lineages, the ...

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners have died and landscapes have changed. After bones break down, tooth enamel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Until now, modern hominoids—humans, human ancestors, and apes—were thought to have diverged from monkeys in East Africa. The ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Authorities were investigating after the discovery Sunday afternoon of possible human remains at a Long Beach park ...

Before Neanderthals and Denisovans, before Homo erectus, before Lucy and other australopiths, who was the ancestor that gave rise to human evolution? Fossils of hominoids that lived during the Early ...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Apollo astronauts set the world record for distance from the Earth more than 50 years ago, but the Artemis II crew broke the record for distance on Monday afternoon as they are ...

A new imaging technique using a particle accelerator is giving researchers an unprecedented level of detail of our organs, producing scans 100 billion times brighter than a CT scanner. Those 3D models ...

A human skull was found during an Easter egg hunt in a Southern California park, authorities said Monday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...