Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

The team made the daily climb with all their excavation and photography equipment, weighing up to 50 pounds per person.

A new discovery at an archaeological site has led researchers to believe that humans lived in rainforests much earlier than ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...

Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

Now one of the driest places on Earth, the Saharo-Arabian Desert may have been key to human migration history.

The Fulani people are Africa's largest pastoralist group. There are between 25 million and 40  million Fulani people across ...

With financial support from the Pandemic Fund and technical assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO) in the African Region and other partners, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, ...

A major discovery in West Africa is rewriting human history—archaeologists have found stone tools dating back 150,000 years ...

Scientists have determined the reddish-brown rock art found in a cave on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island is more than 44,000 ...

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...