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"They're beautiful, but they're all like roadkill," says Luis Chiappe, a paleontologist and curator at the Natural History ...

A study suggests that the human act of kissing is a remnant of grooming, in which great apes use lip suction to clean the fur ...

Recent discoveries revealed that our ancestors interbred with Denisovans on at least three separate occasions, leaving traces ...

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Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

DNA evidence reshapes the story of Pompeii's 79 AD eruption victims, challenging old assumptions and revealing new insights ...

Since its discovery in 1993, the Altamura Man, dating back at least 130,000 years, has continued to captivate scientists and ...

It is unclear exactly why the animals went extinct, but scientists say that human activity or climate change contributed to ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...