"The Secret Lives of Eskimos," in its Seattle debut, involves a cellphone, a terrorist bombing and a trip to a tormented inner life.

The arrival of Paleo-Eskimos into the Americas was its own independent migration event, with Paleo-Eskimos genetically distinct from both the Neo-Eskimos and modern Native Americans.

Eskimos do not suffer from diabetes or cancer, rarely from hardening of the arteries. Yet they subsist almost entirely on meat. The possible relationship between such absence of disease and the ...

Research by University of Copenhagen offers new theories about the disappearance of Paleo-Eskimos, 700 years ago. This coincided with the arrival of modern Eskimos (pictured).

Several other studies also recorded very large amounts of carbohydrates in the Eskimo population as the more modern diet became prevalent.

In the last century the childlike Eskimos of Alaska, fascinated by the white man's guns, began shooting walrus and caribou with more enthusiasm than discretion. That, plus annual fluctuations in ...

A 3,000-year-old clump of human hair found frozen in Greenland may have solved a scientific mystery: Where did ancient Eskimos come from, and where did they all go?

The results showed that Neanderthals did not have lives that were dramatically more difficult than those of the modern Eskimos -- a finding that challenged traditional thinking at the time.

Modern Inuit peoples all descend from populations that lived in the North Slope region of Alaska. This finding, revealed in DNA analysis of ancient and contemporary cultures, could answer ...

An ancient tuft of hair suggests that the first Greenlanders weren’t related to Native Americans or modern Eskimos (Image: Bjarne Grønnow) ...