We don’t often think of ourselves as a major predator, let alone the most dangerous of them all, but wildlife clearly think differently — and recognize us for what we are. Bear warning in the woods ...

But it’s one thing to say that Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of modern Europeans, or that the recently discovered Denisovans interbred with some older mystery group, or that they all ...

If you are human, you are going to die. This isn't the most comforting thought, but death is the inevitable price we must pay for being alive. Humans are, however, getting better at pushing back our ...

The human population may have lingered at about 1,300 for more than 100,000 years, and that population bottleneck could have fueled the divergence between modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans.

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Humans come from Africa. This wasn’t always obvious, but ...

There are no records of orca ever hunting and killing humans in the wild, despite numerous interactions between the two species. Orca have been known to prey on whale species larger than themselves ...

Mammoth remains found in 2013 in New Mexico suggest humans settled in North America about 37,000 years ago. The discovery means humans might have been in North America 20,000 years before scientists ...

Digital humans, once a concept only found in science fiction movies, have become a reality thanks to AI and 3D animation technology advancements. What started as animated human-like creatures in the ...

This work arose and was funded, in part, from a CIB Fellowship awarded to Benjamin Allen by the inter-institutional Centre for Invasion Biology (CIB) Centre of Excellence in South Africa, co-funded ...

Humans have long imagined life on Mars, though our understanding of the planet has changed a lot. Some of the US's earliest plans assumed humans could reach the Red Planet by the 1980s. Over the ...

Some human body parts have become useless over the past few million years. These include wisdom teeth, the tail bone, and the muscle fibers that produce goose bumps. Take a look at nine body parts ...

"CO2 is a trace gas in our atmosphere," the post is captioned. "Numbers say that all the nonsense we're subjected too in reference to it's effect and our contribution to the amount in the atmosphere ...