Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

A new study has revealed that two 7,000-year-old mummies found in the Sahara Desert belong to a previously unknown branch of ...

How big of a role do our genes play in our lifespan? Quite a bit more than previously thought, a new study suggests.

Deep inside a handful of caves, scientists are pulling genetic secrets out of bones, teeth and even the surrounding dirt, and ...

The Penn Yan Action Coalition (PYAC) has announced that “The Lemon Tree” (young readers’ edition) has been selected for its seventh annual community read.

The formally feathered, flightless aquatic birds known as penguins dominate the frigid waters surrounding the subantarctic and Antarctic islands. The Southern Hemisphere is penguin territory, although ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

The Jan. 23 accident is the fourth death at Colorado ski resorts this winter ...

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives ...

"When I was in kindergarten. I tried to grow an orange tree in my stomach," actress Andrea Barber, who portrayed Kimmy on ...

At Oakdale High School, siblings Dakota Burford, Sklyer Burford, and Wes Burford are building names of their own across ...

British scientists said Thursday that a world-first AI tool to catalog and track icebergs as they break apart into smaller ...