Learn about the migration routes that ancient humans took when traveling out of Africa and how rising sea levels may have ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient human migration routes hidden beneath the sea, revealing how early humans moved between ...

A University of Kansas researcher has spent years studying "aquaterra"—his term for regions around the world once populated ...

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

Zoonoses—diseases that spread from animals to humans—began to gain prevalence some 6,500 years ago with the rise of animal ...

Sealed inside a rocky tomb for over four millennia, an Egyptian skeleton has just revealed a hidden chapter of ancient ...

Researchers analyzed ancient and modern genetic samples of the Greenlandic Qimmit breed to shed light on the long ...

The jaw was dated to somewhere between 10,000 and 190,000 years ago. That’s a wide range, mostly due to the challenges of dating fossils that have spent time underwater.

This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Many people know the rich and legendary history of Greece. However, who knew that the ancient Greeks originated from numerous ...

Throughout their long history, Qimmit have remained working dogs–still almost exclusively bred by mushers to pull sleds for ...