This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Families in the town of Erie are calling for town officials to take action over an increase in coyote and possible mountain ...

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American Canyon Community Cats is reducing the city’s feral cat population through trap-neuter-return programs, adoptions and ...

Strapped into a crude homemade straitjacket and tied to a child's potty, Genie Wiley knew nothing outside the darkness of her ...

The clip opens with Buddy sitting by the door, waiting for Kyshawn to let him outside to do his business. But the moment the door opens, it’s immediately clear that Buddy has no interest in stepping ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you can't see, such as what foods different people are able to digest. When ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

A long-standing belief surrounding super shoes is that they’re only “good” for one race. As the miles accumulate, it’s true that the foam compresses and loses its spring, reducing the shoe’s ...

More than 300 piles of cremated human remains were discovered in a desert just outside of Las Vegas, sparking a mystery for which authorities so far have few answers. A local stumbled upon the site of ...