The H5N1 avian influenza virus, or bird flu, has reached alarming levels globally, and Canada is on high alert.

Fans started gathering at San Lorenzo football club's chapel from Monday, to bid farewell to Pope Francis. "The Pope leaves ...

Advocating for migrants was one of Pope Francis' top priorities. His papacy saw a refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, ...

A quiet dig in Romania unearthed more than ancient bones it cracked open our understanding of when and how humans first ...

Isotope analysis of limestone cave deposits indicates repeated humid periods in the Saharo-Arabian Desert over the past eight ...

These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan ...

A new study finds that Arabia was once a green corridor of rivers and lakes, enabling animal and human migration between Africa and Eurasia over the past 8 million years. A new study published in ...

As ancient communities shifted from foraging to farming, the forces driving this dramatic change weren’t always what many ...

Currently, scientists believe that the ability for ancient humans to construct large structures like temples and pyramids evolved alongside the development of agriculture 12,000 years ago.

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...