The fossil cave system in Richards Spur, Oklahoma, is believed to be home to some of the oldest stalagmites in the world.

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

Footage shows how researchers discovers fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited ...

The first almost complete set of hand bones from the ancient human relative Paranthropus boisei has been found, revealing a ...

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

Down in California, the San Andreas Fault marks the boundary where the North American and Pacific plates are sliding past ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

Once depicted as barbaric, grunting, sub-humans, Neanderthals are now known to have had the same or similar levels of intelligence as modern humans. They also had their own distinct culture. Here we ...

Indonesia is one of the few countries still building new coal power plants, the most polluting sources of power. Chinese ...

Cedar City figured out the secret formula for mixing small-town sweetness with cultural sophistication. This gem sits at the doorstep of Utah’s national parks like a welcoming host greeting honored ...