Imagine a world where furry mammals scuttle under the feet of gigantic dinosaurs, not yet destined to rule the Earth. It’s a ...

Videos of chimpanzees sharing alcoholic fruit suggest that this behavior could have led to feasting in humans, a new study ...

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

(Related: Rediscovering China’s ancient Tea Horse Road, a branch of the famous Silk Road.) Nuodeng, a former Tea Horse Trail town, has some of the best-preserved examples of traditional Bai ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

Explore the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa, home to ancient human ancestors and groundbreaking scientific discoveries.

South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, home to early human fossils, reopened after three years, offering tourists a chance to ...

Dr Matthew Taylor from Augusta University set out to analyze and classify a series of relics made from human bone that had ...

The first evidence that hominins butchered several animals at the site in Romania at least 1.95 million years ago has been ...

This week, solve the mystery of an ancient human ancestor’s fossil, meet a new generation of dire wolves, spy April’s full ...