Woolly mammoths are at the forefront of controversial de-extinction efforts, writes Rebecca Woods in a commentary.

The ankle's ability to regenerate cartilage uses the same mechanisms that enable some animals to grow new limbs, and it could ...

Super Agers author Eric Topol unpacks the rise of biological age tests—from organ clocks to immune system clocks—and how they might revolutionize early diagnosis of disease ...

Human activity discovery aims to cluster human activities without any prior knowledge of what defines each activity. However, most existing methods for human activity recognition are supervised, ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

DNA analysis is considered the gold standard for identifying victims of mass fatalities. But how does it work?

Meet Sphenodraco scandentis, a tree-dwelling, lizard-like reptile that roamed around with the dinosaurs during the Late ...

In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

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

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.