Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

A tiny ancient reptile just revealed the moment breathing as we know it began — and it changed life on Earth forever.

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia, many rights issues are ...

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent ...

The latest research on a Neanderthal infant from Amud Cave in Israel is giving a clearer picture of how different early ...

Multiple groundbreaking studies are rewriting timelines of human evolution, from genetic adaptations over the last 10,000 ...

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

It might not be a coincidence that one of the most interesting geologic locations in the world is also palaeoanthropology’s ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners ...