Apes laugh too, say researchers who tickled gorillas, chimps, orangutans, bonobos, and human babies—suggesting laughter began in a prehistoric ape-human ancestor. Video.
Newfound rock art paintings in northern Australia may reveal that peoples from neighboring Indonesia traded with Aborigines centuries before the arrival of the British.
These ancient maritime traders who introduced the alphabet to the world may have also left behind a large genetic footprint, with 1 in 17 men in the region still harboring Phoenician DNA, according to a new study.
Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans likely did not interbreed, says a new DNA study that also suggests small population numbers helped do in our closest relatives.
DNA analysis of ancient Danish skeletons, including one with Arabian genes, suggests Scandinavians living 2,000 years ago were more diverse genetically than today, scientists say.
People living in the earliest known settlement in the Americas relied partly on seaweed, bolstering the theory that the New World was settled via a coastal route, a new study says.
Remains exhumed last year belong to two children of Tsar Nicholas II, may put to rest questions about what happened to Russia's last royal family, an official said.
Scientists have found genetic evidence that Crusaders contributed DNA to the Christian population of Lebanon, while the expansion of Islam left traces in the country's Muslim groups.
