Asian American communities around the U.S. were ringing in the Year of the Snake with community carnivals, family gatherings, parades, traditional food, fireworks and other festivities. In many Asian ...

Lunar New Year festivals and prayers are marking the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and the world.

Human ancestors like Australopithecus -- which lived ... with little to no evidence of meat consumption. The consumption of animal resources, especially meat, is considered a crucial turning ...

Some of our species’ earliest ancestors may have spent a lot more time eating salad than steak. Diet has been a crucial component of human evolution, says Tina Lüdecke, a geochemist at the Max ...

It’s much easier to survive in the desert now, with modern conveniences like houses and bottled water, but it took much more of an effort for our early ancestors. Many researchers believe that ...

New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed ... during human evolution. Animal resources provide a highly concentrated ...

Hundreds of people with Jewish ancestry have been identified as having a gene mutation which puts them at a higher risk of developing cancer. The NHS in England initiated a genetic testing ...

(Web Desk) - Scientists have reconstructed the face of a long-lost human ancestor that may have played a critical role in our evolution. They used the Harbin skull, also known as 'Dragon Man,' which ...

Quantifying which individuals share genetic material from common ancestors plays a central role in several scientific disciplines, particularly animal behavior, conservation biology, and genetic ...