Stretching from Montana to Missouri, the Missouri River basin is one of the country's largest river systems. Over the past ...

Old Neanderthal Fossil Found in a Shallow Cave Reveals Earliest Evidence of Bone Tumor The fight against cancer has long been labeled as a modern battle, a disease deeply mingled with pollutants, ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

THE ‘Sima del Elefante’ (‘Chasm of the Elephant’) is a chain of underground caves in a limestone outcrop near Atapuerca, a ...

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations.

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.

They also serve as evidence of one of the oldest vehicles of all time—what’s known as a travois. The linear tracks from the poles and human footprints both date to roughly 22,000 years ago..