Epic voyage to discover the origins and migration routes of the ancestors of ancient Polynesians and their animals

The ability to make fire millennia ago was likely a key factor in the migration of prehistoric hominids from Africa into Eurasia, a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Archaeology believes on the basis of findings at the Gesher Benot Ya'aqov archaeological site in Israel.

Nearly 200 million people now live outside their country of birth. But the patterns of migration that got them there have proven difficult to project.

When meeting someone for the first time, the second question that is usually asked (following “what’s your name?”) is “where do you live?”. Until recently, it was not apparent just how revealing that answer may be.

Stanford University researchers peering at history's footprints on human DNA have found new evidence for how prehistoric people shared knowledge that advanced civilization.

Long gone are the days when hundreds of thousands of bison grazed the Great Plains, millions of passenger pigeons darkened the skies while migrating to and from their breeding grounds, and some 12.5 trillion Rocky Mountain locusts crowded an area exceeding the size of California.

A large-scale genetic study of native North Americans offers new insights into the migration of a small group of Athapaskan natives from their subarctic home in northwest North America to the southwestern United States.

The effects of climate change are increasingly driving people in sub-Saharan Africa to migrate in search of better living conditions, according to experts who gathered this week in the Senegalese capital, Dakar.

Lice from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru may unravel important clues about a different sort of passage: the migration patterns of America’s earliest humans, a new University of Florida study suggests.

Sweden is airing the welcome mat less and less when it comes to Iraqi asylum-seekers.

China's State Council, the cabinet, held an inter-ministerial meeting Tuesday to discuss the issue of protecting the rights and interests of migrant workers from the countryside.

More than 130 migrants from Somalia, many fleeing violence in their homeland, died over the weekend when their boats capsized off Yemen as weather and the brutality of people-smugglers continued to exact a grievous toll, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.