The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to ...

XI'AN -- A well-preserved giant panda fossil, dating back at least 10,000 years, has been discovered in a cave in Northwest ...

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A tiny bone from Starosele Cave, Crimea, has yielded ancient DNA showing it belonged to a Neanderthal dubbed “Star 1”.

Nature has become a rounding error on a planet dominated by humanity, and for some things we don’t even need our machines to do it.

The Red Sea was thought to host ecosystems resilient to warming waters, but a 2023 heatwave proves otherwise. A juvenile Red Sea anemonefish, also called a clownfish, looks out from between the ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...