Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

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

Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2 million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis.

A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution.

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years.

Archaeologists discovered a 6,000-year-old skeleton showing healed lion attack wounds. The ancient man survived the brutal ...

The bones are tangled and entwined, as though the bodies were thrown or rolled on top of each other. Archaeologists have ...

They added that skeletal evidence of animal attacks from prehistoric times is extremely rare.

NASA will bring four astronauts back to Earth early due to a health issue, leaving the International Space Station with just ...

"The brain microplastic paper is a joke." The post Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human ...

Microplastics are everywhere. We drink them in our water, we eat them in our food, we breathe them in our air, leading to – ...