By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Vitamins got their name in the early 1900s when London-based Polish biochemist Casimir Funk—one of many scientists seeking ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Life in the 1920s looked vastly different than our world today. From fashion and music to sports and travel, here's how times ...

Buying $100 In UNH: If an investor had bought $100 of UNH stock 15 years ago, it would be worth $986.42 today based on a price of $307.15 for UNH at the time of writing.

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, according to a new study published in the journal Science. A team of researchers ...

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...