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

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

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

Like the song says, it's time for mistletoe and holly. The holly tree has been a winter favorite throughout human history, ...

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 ...

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

Analysis - New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists analysed DNA from 28 individuals who ...

Africa has the greatest human genetic diversity and the hunter-gatherers of southern Africa represent some of the oldest known genetic lineages. They can therefore reveal more about where and when we ...

Researchers have counted 16,600 fossilized dinosaur footprints and 1,378 swim tracks at a site in Bolivia that showcase a ...

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 ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...