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 ...

A newly discovered Neanderthal site on Portugal’s Algarve coast has revealed the first fossilized footprints of these ancient humans in the region. A new international study published in Scientific ...

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 ...

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...

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.

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