Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo sapiens may have emerged at least half a million years earlier than previously thought. The skull, known as Yunxian 2, was discovered in Hubei Province ...

The research from the Issa Valley in western Tanzania highlighted a surprising, and potentially crucial, role for fungi in primate diets ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...

An international study, published in the journal Scientific Reports by Nature Publishing Group, has revealed a new Neanderthal site in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Algarve coast of ...

Archaeologists in Ukraine discovered circular dwellings made from mammoth bones—built 20,000 years before modern humans ...

In Portugal’s Algarve region, archaeologists uncovered Neanderthal trackways left by adults, children, and even a toddler 82,000 years ago. Using luminescence dating, researchers linked the footprints ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

From murky origins, the sideshow attraction was heralded as a potential scientific breakthrough, some sort of missing link.

The origins of our species may lie much further back in time than we thought, and the same may be true of our extinct Neanderthal and Denisovan cousins. According to a new analysis of fossil remains, ...

Birding is having something of a pop-culture moment. Uzo Aduba’s “world’s greatest detective,” from this summer’s Netflix hit The Residence, was a birder, as is Mark Ruffalo’s FBI agent character in ...

“The Rocky Horror Show” has always been a part of Linus O’Brien’s life. “He goes, ‘I think the movie's doing quite well now,’” Linus O’Brien recalls. “I go, ‘What do you mean? I thought you said it ...