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A lone finger bone unearthed in the desert suggests modern humans had penetrated deep into Arabia already 85,000 years ago, said a study on April 9, 2018 advancing the date of our species' African emigration by millennia.

When termites go to war, the oldest soldiers fight on the front lines, being closer to death anyway, a study revealed on Wednesday.

Pigeons may be smarter than you think.

A student at a British university has uncovered teeth from rat-like creatures who lived 145 million years ago and have distant links to humans, a scientific journal reported Tuesday. The discovery was made on the coast of Dorset, southwest England, by

An AI character was made an official resident of a busy central Tokyo district on Saturday, with the virtual newcomer resembling a chatty seven-year-old boy.

Three and a half years before Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, a dog called Laika was in 1957 the first living being to orbit the Earth. The stray from Moscow is one of many animals who preceded humans in the conquest of s

After eight months of living in isolation on a remote Hawaii volcano, six NASA-backed space psychology research subjects emerged from their Mars-like habitat. The participants were in a study designed to better understand the psychological impacts of

Rock band Aerosmith announced Tuesday it was cutting short its tour of South America after frontman Steven Tyler flew back to the US due to unexpected medical issues.