The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

The Vatican on Tuesday launched new pastoral care guidelines for the protection and promotion of human life to mark the 30th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s encyclical letter Evangelium Vitae.

I’ve always been envious of people who have an easy time placing the word “home.” They can instantly picture their parents, hair graying and skin wrinkling, sitting on the couch watching “Seinfeld” ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

What a revoltin’ development. The Fantastic Four have fought a number of larger-than-life monsters since 1961’s Fantastic ...

Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

The Neanderthals were our closest human relatives, and roamed the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago. Although they are long extinct, their genes still live in us today.

Hossam Shabat’s mother mourns her son’s death, calling him a hero who gave his life to reveal Gaza’s horror. UN secretary-general makes ‘difficult decision’ to withdraw 30 percent of ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.