The Laetoli site in Tanzania is globally famous for its australopithecine trackways, which remain the only tracks of these ...

New analyses have overturned a long-taught chapter of Japanese prehistory: fossils from a Toyohashi quarry once hailed as the ...

For nearly seven decades, textbook timelines pointed to a handful of bones as Japan’s earliest humans. New analyses now show ...

In a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, archaeologists recently uncovered ared ochre depiction of a warty pig.

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...

Scientists from Arizona State University and other institutions finally assigned a species name to a fossil known as the ...

International research and highly-specialized divers are bringing an underground, underwater world to the surface ...

Lucy, the famed 3.2-million-year-old fossil that transformed scientific understanding of humanity’s origins, has been placed ...

Environmental policy expert and environmental justice champion Judith Enck says in a new book that it’s possible to move ...

When physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio unearthed a fossil in Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state in 2014, he could ...