Newly found fossils show that those rivers were home to fish, turtles, river sharks, and even hippos. On land, elephants, ...

Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from ...

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

As far as art goes, it's not going to win any awards. But this large pebble might be the earliest known representation of a face, experts say.

The rate of societal change and scope of consequences—led by technology and demographics—have quickened far, far beyond the glacial pace at which over 99 percent of human history unfolded.

The more species of Homo there were, the higher the rate of speciation. So when those niches got filled, something drove even more species to emerge. This is almost unparalleled in evolutionary ...

Most of us imagine Neanderthals as a single, roaming group spread out across Ice Age Europe. However, new research paints […] ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

But it was Homo sapiens, men, who fashioned these beachcombed titans into ... produce intricately manufactured projectile points and foreshafts—employed for the hunting of reindeer and bison in the ...

Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being ...

This result offers a new ... Sunscreen, Clothes and Caves May Have Helped Homo Sapiens Survive 41,000 Years Ago Apr. 16, 2025 — A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited from the use ...