Even for a desert, the Nefud is nearly bone-dry. Only about an inch of water falls onto the red, sandy soil in northern Saudi Arabia over the course of a year. But 85,000 years ago, hippos roamed ...

A fossil finger bone found in the heart of Saudi Arabia – in the middle of what is now called the Nefud Desert – dates to at least 85,000 years ago, seemingly belonging to a member of the Homo ...

Finger bone points to early humans in Arabian Peninsula 88,000-year-old fossil found in the Saudi desert raises questions over the timeline of human migration out of Africa ...

That anatomically modern humans were living in Saudi Arabia some 88,000 years ago is actually quite unsurprising. A jaw fossil found in Israel’s Misilya Cave, just a few hundred miles to the ...

A fossil finger bone found in the heart of Saudi Arabia – in the middle of what is now called the Nefud Desert – dates to at least 85,000 years ago, seemingly belonging to a member of the Homo ...