Humans

Humans, not climate, killed off Australia’s big beasts

PARIS: Humans exterminated an array of weird and wonderful Australian creatures within only 4,000 years of… Read More

Your dog can remember what you did: study

When it comes to having a short memory and getting easily distracted, dogs often get… Read More

African honeyguide birds aid hunters in rare, sweet partnership

OSLO: A small African bird that guides people to bees' nests hoping to share honey… Read More

Scientists use climate, population changes to predict diseases

LONDON: British scientists say they have developed a model that can predict outbreaks of zoonotic… Read More

Double domestication: Dogs originate in both Europe and Asia

WASHINGTON: Humans may have domesticated dogs two separate times, taming wolves both in Europe and Asia… Read More

Remarkable evidence of ancient humans found under Florida river

FLORIDA: Researchers who dove hundreds of times into a sinkhole beneath the brown murky waters… Read More

Mystery ‘hobbits’ not humans like us: study

PARIS: Diminutive humans that died out on an Indonesian island some 15,000 years ago were… Read More

Why do humans and other mammals have eyelashes?

PARIS: Why do humans and other mammals have eyelashes? Read More

Homo or Flo: Hobbits were real

Did you know that there was a subspecies a human known as homo florsiensis which… Read More

Study reveals how humans tamed wild horses

MIAMI: Humans tamed horses some 5,500 years ago, and an international study of ancient and… Read More

Nobel Prize for medicine goes to discoverers of brain’s internal GPS

STOCKHOLM: Anglo-American John O'Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel… Read More