Analysis of early human bone fossils reveals adaptations for climbing trees and manipulating stones millions of years ago.

A groundbreaking new study has shattered previous conceptions about Paleolithic humans, proving they exploited ...

If Yellowstone is dangerous now, it’s a cakewalk compared to the Pleistocene age where humans had to contend with mammoths, ...

The bi-nation expedition in 1948 was launched amid great fanfare but quickly turned toxic with secrets, scandals and the ...

A fossilized elephant skull found in the Kashmir Valley is reshaping how scientists understand an ancient giant’s past.

In Northern China, archaeologists have discovered evidence of a previously unknown Palaeolithic culture of Homo sapiens at ...

The right-wing tilt of online voices favors “just asking questions” grifters. But Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone sees ways to combat it.

Footprints found in New Mexico were dated to roughly 23,000 years old - about 10,000 years before humans were thought to be ...

Stone Age humans scavenged the skeletons of several whale species along the Bay of Biscay in what is now southwestern France ...

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

STONE Age people had a far more troublesome enemy than sabre-tooth tigers — bed bugs. Their first settlements — like Fred ...

Your ancestors were hauling massive whale bones up steep cliffs and dragging them miles inland to their cave homes 20,000 ...