In the Halo universe, the biggest threat is an alien hegemony called the Covenant. Who are they and what do they want?

The "Yunxian Man" skull fossils are the most complete ancient human skull fossils originating from the same era discovered so far in the inland of Eurasia. They have filled a gap in the human ...

The team of researchers uncovered a well-preserved jaw belonging to an adult mastodon, an ancient relative of today’s elephants. The jaw will now be studied to figure out how old it is ...

New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier ... where researchers have found evidence ...

Washington: A patient in Louisiana has been hospitalized with a severe infection of avian influenza, marking the first serious human case in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Avian influenza, commonly called "bird flu", is a viral infection that spreads in birds, cows and other animals. Even though there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission taking place ...

It’s a gigantic find. An intact prehistoric mastodon jaw was discovered in the backyard of a Hudson Valley house after the homeowner initially saw a pair of teeth poking up by a plant ...

Archaeologists have discovered an inscribed silver amulet that one theologian now says may rewrite the history of Christianity north of the Alps mountain range. The inscribed amulet was found ...

said it detected "the first presumptive positive human case" of bird flu in Barron County, Wisconsin. The person believed to be infected with bird flu, also known as Highly Pathogenic Avian ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help ...

In a recent study published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, Powell and his colleagues identified two specific HERV expression signatures associated with disease: downregulation of HERVs located on ...

CDC has confirmed 61 human cases nationally since April, mostly in workers on dairy farms where the virus infected cattle. Workers culling infected poultry also have tested positive. The patient ...