One study unveiled two of the oldest Homo sapiens genomes so far sequenced ... and where Neanderthal DNA started showing up in the timeline. They found that the period of interbreeding began ...

Late in November, developments in Syria caused alarm, in how a mostly dormant civil war was seeing dramatic movement in a short period. An armed set of forces comprising the Syrian opposition began ...

After days of searching, police have announced the arrest of a suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel last week. NEW YORK — After days of searching ...

Four days later, she crossed the border back into the U.S. From her initial alarming text messages to her family to her disappearance to Mexico, here's a complete timeline of Hannah Kobayashi's case.

At the historic Umayyad Mosque in the heart of Damascus, a red, white, black and green flag flies. On the other side of the Syrian capital, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s palace burns ...

The first protests against Assad quickly spread across the country, and are met by security forces with a wave of arrests and shootings. Some protesters take up guns and military units defect as ...

The collapse of Bashar Assad's rule over Syria marks the culmination of a nearly 14-year rebellion and a key moment in a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people, displaced half the ...

“That’s not nice. And it was just two trash bags. Why?... Guys from Staten Island have the scientific name ‘no homo sapien.’” Jost also poked fun at what it was like to call New York ...

Fossils of Homo juluensis date back 220,000 to 100,000 years. Skull traits blend Neanderthal, Denisovan and modern human features. Discovery reshapes understanding of hominin evolution in eastern Asia ...

The two species appear to have separated from a common ancestor around 200,000 years ago, while they split from the modern human Homo sapien lineage around 600,000 years ago. Last year researchers ...

Comparing this to the cranium of a Neanderthal (88 cubic inches) and a Homo Sapien (82 cubic inches), this meant they possessed larger brains and teeth compared to modern humans. However, as Bae says, ...