The sunny Mediterranean Sea—today a very popular holiday destination—had a period long ago when ... 2–16 years, with water flowing into the sea at a rate of 60–100 million cubic meters ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

A fledgling Chinese startup led by a hedge fund manager built a coherent AI chatbot in a year, after it took cash-flush ...

NEW YORK, Jan 15 (Reuters) - The cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX has been fined $100 million for deliberately ... The sentence includes two years of probation. BitMEX and its founders, who entered ...

"We reveal how early humans -- known as hominins -- were ... around the world shows Homo erectus adapted at least 1.2 million years ago -- long before our species, Homo sapiens, emerged.

More than a million years ago, long before our species Homo sapiens emerged, early humans adapted to desert-like conditions. Kaplan was a co-author of the findings published Thursday in the ...

Human ancestors like Australopithecus -- which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa -- ate very little to no meat, according to new research. This conclusion comes from an ...

The desert is one of the harshest environments to live in. It can be extremely hot during the day and freezing cold at night. There is sparse vegetation and little shade. The terrain is often rough, ...

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