Flooding worsened by climate change is forcing a community in South Sudan to work constantly to keep water from encroaching on their land. The Akuak community of about 2,000 people has been ...

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...

In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

As of Monday night, the death toll had reached 961, with at least 289 people still missing and around 5,000 injured. More than 157,000 houses and over 1,200 public facilities have been damaged in 52 ...

While most people flinch at the sight of a spider, Cal State Fullerton assistant professor of biological science Anna ...

Archaeologists are pushing the origins of art far deeper into prehistory than anyone expected, revealing painted symbols and ...

The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated ...

In the north, distinctive lineages such as M27, M28, and M29′Q trace deep roots in New Guinea and Near Oceania, while in the ...

Emergency crews raced to reach survivors and recover more bodies Tuesday as the death toll from last week's catastrophic ...

Parts of Asia are reeling after torrents of rain unleashed catastrophic floods and landslides last week and killed more than ...

New research suggests that ‘early human pioneers’ in Australia interbred with archaic species of hobbits at least 60,000 ...

Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail Earth's oceans.