The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs to this group, after examining preserved DNA and proteins ...

Around 20,000 to 60,000 years ago, as Homo sapiens spread across the Earth during the Ice Age, they encountered dramatic ...

Evidence buried in gypsum dunes suggests humans arrived far earlier than expected. Radiocarbon dates from three materials ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

A new study by University of Arizona researchers bolsters the case that fossilized footprints in White Sands, New Mexico, are ...

Archaeologists and First Nations communities uncover 693 Ice Age-era stone artifacts in a high-altitude Blue Mountains cave, ...

The story of when humans first arrived in the Americas is being rewritten—thanks to some ancient footprints found in New ...

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ...

Roughly 10 years ago, researchers in Tumat, Siberia unearthed two 14,000-year-old canines that had been preserved so ...