On April 24, the body of missing college student Trenton Massey was located in a harbor in Marquette, Mich. The 21-year-old ...

Archaeologists have identified the earliest sustained human occupation in Highland Southern Africa, and suggest it could not ...

Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen and Victor Glover with the Orion capsule they flew on the mission after splashdown. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls On April 10, the Orion capsule carrying Reid ...

The day after Derby Day is one of the sports calendar’s hangover days: Super Bowl Monday, Final Four Tuesday, World Series ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

In the fourth episode of our Stones & Bones video series, National Geographic digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur examines the ...

A tiny ancient reptile just revealed the moment breathing as we know it began — and it changed life on Earth forever.

Several human-bear encounters in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park this month have triggered trail closures and ...

A schoolgirl, an ambulance driver, a migrant worker and a journalist. These are just some of the stories of civilians killed ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Tick season seems to be off to a fast start, with an unusually high number of bites already reported across the country.

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, before humans and Neanderthals diverged from a common ancestor, a new study ...