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An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

The real revelation, however, came from the men. Men considered a larger penis as an indicator of a rival with both greater ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

For the ArchaeoSpain research team, it was a day just like any other on their dig at the castle of Zorita de los Canes ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

The sharpest dark matter map ever reveals the invisible cosmic scaffolding that built galaxies, stars, and ultimately life itself.

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A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.