Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

In 2023, two South African fossils were carried aboard a Virgin Galactic commercial spaceflight: a 2 million-year-old Australopithecus sediba clavicle and a 250,000-year-old Homo naledi thumb bone.

Photo provided to China Daily] High on a cliff in Lushan county of Pingdingshan city, Central China's Henan province, a small cave is rewriting the story of the region's earliest modern humans. The ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling that the ...

Along with hundreds of people, some strange objects have also been sent to space, from dinosaur bones to golf balls and even ...

A new titanosaur species, Phosphatotitan khouribgaensis, has been unearthed in Morocco, dating back approximately 70 million ...

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

Artistic reconstruction of a dire wolf. You may have seen them in Game of Thrones, but dire wolves aren’t fantasy beasts.

The study of ancient cultures around Ethiopia during the Middle Stone Age (MSA) time period is important for understanding how some of the first Homo sapiens lived and eventually left Africa.

What can bones tell us about life millions of years ago? A paleobiologist decodes chemical clues to uncover how animals lived ...