Rare 10 million-year-old fossil unearths new view of human evolution
Human ancestors might not have been built like modern African apes, a new study suggests.
Near an old mining town in Central Europe, known for...
Scientists discover the sixth major mass extinction
Scientists have concluded that earth experienced a previously underestimated severe mass-extinction event, which occurred about 260 million years ago.
This raises the total of major...
3.8-million-year-old fossil cranium unveils more about human ancestry
In 2016, researchers in the Afar region of Ethiopia discovered a nearly complete cranium of an early human ancestor, Australopithecus anamensis, that dates to...
New study pinpoints when humans began to dominate the Earth
Archaeologists have identified with unprecedented precision the turning point when humans began to transform the Earth beyond recognition, tracing it to around 3,000 years...
People arrived in North America thousand years earlier than thought
Stone tools and other artifacts unearthed from an archeological dig at the Cooper's Ferry site in western Idaho suggest that people lived in the...
Maya more warlike than previously thought, says new study
The Maya of Central America are thought to have been a kinder, gentler civilization, especially compared to the Aztecs of Mexico.
At the peak of...
Newly-discovered 1,600-year-old mosaic sheds light on ancient Judaism
Scientists find the first ancient Jewish depiction of the Elim episode from the biblical book of Exodus.
For nine years running, Carolina professor Jodi Magness...
Scientists discover Neanderthals used resin ‘glue’ to craft their stone tools
Archaeologists working in two Italian caves have discovered some of the earliest known examples of ancient humans using an adhesive on their stone tools—an...
Amber ammonite offers rare glimpse of ancient sea life
The discovery of a 100-million-year-old ammonite—a distant relative of modern squid and octopuses—in amber is significant and surprising, researchers say.
Scientists say the lump of...
This prehistoric burial mound re-used for 2,000 years
Researchers have found evidence that an unremarkable prehistoric burial mound near Bordeaux, in southwest France, was re-used by locals for around 2,000 years.
The researchers...