First humans

Here are 10 mysteries about human evolution, including why our brains are so big, why humans are bipedal, and other questions about Neanderthals, hobbits and other extinct relatives.

An Illinois man died of rabies after waking up with a bat on his neck and then getting bit. Find out more about what rabies is, symptoms, and prevention, according to experts.

A potential new species of human, dubbed the Red Deer Cave people, has been discovered in China, adding another branch to the evolutionary tree of hominids

“Science doesn’t proceed or get better with established ideas. You have to challenge”Recently a team of fossil hunters working in Kenya came upon a set of fo...

In some of the earliest important migrations that took place, it is likely that humans used the Sinai route to exit Africa and arrive in Asia, making the

Named Homo naledi, the species has been assigned to the genus Homo, to which modern humans also belong. The remains were discovered in South Africa's Gauteng province.

Winter in Ice Age Europe was not for the faint-hearted. There has been a long-running debate between experts as to whether humans migrated out of Northern Europe during the savage winters

“Science doesn’t proceed or get better with established ideas. You have to challenge”Recently a team of fossil hunters working in Kenya came upon a set of fo...

People have been fascinated with "the final frontier" since the dawn of the day, when space travel became possible, if not before. With movies like Star Trek and Star Wars being at the peak of popularity and the global reaction to Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket launch, the interest in colonization outside of our planet has never been higher. But while some of us only dream of space travel, one girl is making it her reality.

Proponents say controversial procedure could pave way to immortality