A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.

Living past the age of 100 has long fascinated scientists and the public alike. While advances in medicine and healthier ...

A recent study has shown that the human ancestral DNA plays a crucial role in defining an individual's longevity.

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

A new study led by UCC paleontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. The ...

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Thirty-three-year-old Tim Holloway, who lives in Atlanta, had uploaded his DNA to Ancestry.com. Cooper had done the same at a ...

Sofia Vardava-Haska has been described as the mother of Dodecanese culture, with regard to the Rhodian diaspora in Australia.

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Pigs across the Pacific can trace their ancestry to Southeast Asian domestic pigs that accompanied early Austronesian-speaking groups as they ...

A new study lead by UCC palaeontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. Dr Daniel Falk, together with colleagues from UCC, Germany and the United ...

Ancient hunter-gatherer genes may hold the secret to living past 100, according to a new study of Italian centenarians and their DNA.