Seven remarkably preserved footprints in an ancient lakebed represent the oldest evidence of human presence in the Middle ...

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

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

They might just rewrite the history of human migration.

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

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 lived in ...

Like the song says, it’s time for mistletoe and holly. The holly tree has been a winter favorite throughout human history, but the genus, which includes hundreds of species, goes back much further ...

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

When ancient microbes died, they did not leave skeletons though some have argued controversially that colonies left ancient microstructures ...

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 ...