The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records. By Corey Kilgannon Since online genealogy ...

The Blackfoot Confederacy is today made up of four bands. The traditional lands of three of them, the Blood (Kainai), Piikani, and Siksika First Nations, are on the plains of southern Alberta, Canada, ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...

The act of kissing may have started long before modern humans existed, a new modeling study suggests. Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large ...

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A timeline of genetic changes in millions of years of human evolution shows that variants linked to higher intelligence appeared most rapidly around 500,000 years ago, and were closely followed by ...

A distant relative recently contacted me about our family history. This is always disturbing, of course, because you never know what he might discover. What you already know may be bad enough. But the ...

How did the ostrich cross the ocean? It may sound like a joke, but scientists have long been puzzled by how the family of birds that includes African ostriches, Australian emus and cassowaries, New ...

A handful of teeth unearthed in Ethiopia has led to the discovery of a new species of human ancestor. The finding, announced in August in the journal Nature, began with a Valentine’s Day trek seven ...

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Researchers working in northeastern Ethiopia have discovered remains of a previously unknown branch of humanity. The fossils, which include teeth that date to between 2.8 million and 2.6 million years ...

Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached the islands by at least 1.04 million years ago. That’s around the same time that ...