For tens of thousands of years, early humans painted animals on cave walls with incredible realism - but almost never painted ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Inspectors were looking at the home’s foundation when they made the disturbing discovery. Beneath the floorboards – in a hidden crawl space – they found jars filled with preserved ...

Archaeologists in southern Spain discovered nearly 300,000-year-old footprints preserved in ancient mudflats. These imprints, ...

As archaeologists slowly excavate this ancient statue from the earth, they are, in a sense, awakening a witness to humanity's earliest attempts to comprehend the cosmos and to communicate with the ...

If the route between the two major North American ice sheets didn’t fully open until about 13,000 years ago, how did early Homo sapiens travel from Alaska down into the Americas and even to ...

Humans evolved larger brains and flatter faces much faster than other apes, suggesting that intelligence shaped our skulls.

Most known human fossils at this stage of evolution do bear traces of carnivore damage, including the two best preserved H.

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...

Many of them, including a duck-billed dinosaur mummy discovered in 1908, hail from an area in eastern Wyoming, US. In the new ...