A groundbreaking new study has revealed that apparently 930,000 years ago, our ancestors were down to an astonishingly small ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

A team of scientists led by Prof. Solomon Rotimi of the Department of Biochemistry, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State has ...

The Indian government officially declared the Indian cheetah extinct in 1952. In 2022, as part of the first-ever ...

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

Between 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, during the so-called African Humid Period, the Sahara was not the desert we know today. It was a green expanse of land, with numerous plants and ...

A new multicenter study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute-funded Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) ...

Radford, M.D., at Mayo Clinic studies the differences in dementia between Caucasians and African Americans to develop interventions.

Despite decades of efforts focused on mosquito eradication, drug therapies, and vaccines, malaria remains hard to beat, especially in Africa.

The Fulani have long intrigued social anthropologists with their complex cultural heritage. They raise mainly cattle, goats ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

Thanks to a combination of genetic, palaeoecological, and archaeological evidence, scientists have uncovered that the Persian ...