Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

A backup version of Skylab was displayed when the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum opened 50 years ago. After renovation of the building, the artifact is once more on view in a new gallery ...

U.S. fertility rates continued to decline in the first quarter of 2026 despite the efforts of the Trump administration to boost births.

Located on the outskirts of the town of Fureidis in northern Israel, the cave was in the way of upcoming construction projects until archaeologists intervened. Researchers Dated the Cave to 400,000 ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown fossil ape from Egypt that could alter long-held ideas about the origins of ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...

The Oklahoma City Zoo welcomed a new addition to its animal family with the recent birth of an endangered Asian elephant.

Melatonin reduced infection-related inflammation in human fetal membranes in an ex vivo model. The study suggests that this ...

When former Oregon Republican Sen. Bob Packwood died earlier this month, the newspaper obituaries described him as a self-contradictory figure. On the one hand, many women accused Packwood of sexually ...