The mystery of life’s beginnings has long captivated scientists. Central to that search is LUCA—the last universal common ...

She'd seen them before, on bones that were butchered with stone tools about 1.8 million years ago, from a site called Dmanisi in Georgia.These were cut marks made by a human ancestor wielding a ...

Andrew Garfield’s journey into his ancestry was more heartwrenching than ... ‘And they succeeded in a certain way.’ While the records of the death camps were erased, most of the Jewish ...

Paleontologists recently discovered an omnivorous ancestor of the giant panda, Kretzoiarctos beatrix, at a fossil site in southern Germany. Importantly, this groundbreaking find challenges the ...

Those of us counting on great-grandparents, or even more distant ancestors born after 1861, were out of luck. Just like that, any dreams I had of retiring to a crumbling $1 house near a rapidly ...

A GROUNDBREAKING discovery of two mummies has revealed a previously unknown human ancestor from over 7,000 years ago. The skeletons have sent shock waves across the scientific community - after it ...

(RNS) — Passover is about memory. The central commandment at the traditional Seder feast is to remember the exodus, the flight of the ancient Israelites from slavery to freedom. Adam Sobsey’s ...

For the first time, we now have a glimpse of what Lucy — one of the most famous ancestors of modern humans — might have looked like over 3 million years ago. This reconstruction helps fill in the ...