"Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Branched Oak Observatory is opening its doors for viewing the Comet of the Decade: Comet ...

A recent discovery has revealed surprising clues about the Neanderthals who lived in France. An ancient Neanderthal lineage, isolated for more than 50,000 years, has been identified by French and ...

By examining DNA samples from many ancient humans, scientists can track when we began increasing our carbohydrate intake.

A new study reveals how the duplication of the salivary amylase gene may not only have helped shape human adaptation to starchy foods, but may have occurred as far back as more than 800,000 years ago, ...

A new study shows that our ability to digest carbs long predates the agricultural revolution, and even Neanderthals had ...

Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks ...

The conclusions are tentative, but it’s possible our closest relatives relied too much on the advantage gravity gave them.

The comet was discovered independently in January 2023 by two observatories - China's Tsuchinshan (Purple Mountain) ...

The October full moon, also known as the Hunter's moon, will be the third supermoon of 2024. It will also be the biggest and ...

The initial excavation of the Cerney Wick site revealed the remains of steppe mammoths, ancestors of the woolly mammoth.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, last seen by the Neanderthals 80,000 years ago made a spectacular pass over Greece and the rest of ...