New research has uncovered an extraordinary discovery that challenges our understanding of early human evolution. A young ...

Yet these primordial grave-diggers weren’t quite like us, and new research reveals that a young child from the world’s oldest ...

Archaeologists have long debated the origin of human symbolic behavior. The dominant idea was that only modern humans (Homo sapiens) were capable of complex symbolic thought and behavior; such as ...

Collagen from a fossilized bone fragment can identify the animal it came from. And, some new info about our galaxy’s eventual extinction.

Some people think that learning history might be useless. "It already happened, what's the point?" Yet the truth is that ...

A unique archaeological find has recently expanded our knowledge of Neanderthals' capacity for symbolic thought. The object ...

In 1958, a seemingly insignificant discovery made by farmers in the Guangdong province of southern China would soon challenge ...

New research follows a distinct lineage of bedbugs that lived alongside humans for thousands of years, suggesting they might ...

Wondering which animals are in the Ice Age movie? Keep reading to learn what these animals are called in real life.

Researchers insert a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal variant of the GLI3 gene into mice, altering their bone structure without malformations.

Maba 1 also suffered trauma before death, but the specific cause of the trauma remains unknown.

An 8-inch rock found at an archaeological site in central Spain is the latest indication that Neanderthals were making art long before modern humans ... t the first time a Neanderthal fingerprint ...