Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science.. The ...

The International Day of the Tropics, observed on June 29 annually, focuses on the significance of the tropics as hubs of the ...

Scientists just confirmed a 30-foot void first detected inside the monument years ago. Here’s the technology that helped scientists find it—and what it may have been used for.

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

While most gut microbiome research focuses on high-income countries, a groundbreaking study led by two scientists from South ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

It’s part of the 10th- or 11th-century A.D. Codex Climaci Rescriptus, a collection of parchments from St. Catherine’s monastery in Egypt with monastic writings in Syriac, an ancient language ...

Iran has never blocked the Strait, amid any war or conflict. What could finally push it to this? What makes blocking the ...

The country has sent thousands of lion skeletons to Asia—legally. Experts say this has encouraged an illegal trade, potentially endangering South Africa’s remaining wild lions.

On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, yield new insights into the full scope of Japan's battle plans for the day ...

These discoveries add even more shades of grey to the story of Neanderthal migration and the species’ interactions with our early ancestors, made possible by advancements in ancient DNA analysis ...