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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have unearthed rare artefacts dating to the last ice age at a cave in Australia ’s Blue Mountains, providing definitive proof that the rugged ranges were once occupied by the ...

When two "puppies" were recovered from the Siberian permafrost, perfectly preserved like prehistoric popsicles, they were ...

New research challenges previous theories suggesting the two young canines were domesticated dogs and reveals their ...

A 300-year (1700–2007) chronological record of environmental perchlorate, reconstructed from high-resolution analysis of a central Greenland ice core, shows that perchlorate levels in the post-1980 ...