A lunette dune fringing this dried Australian lake preserves relics from ancient times, while today’s grazing patterns create ...

When Earth was frozen over during the Pleistocene epoch, early humans crossed the Bering Strait from the Asian continent to ...

The rise of mammals. After the dinosaurs became extinct about 66 million years ago, mammals grew bigger and looked different.

In this week’s edition of the science for all newsletter, Arkatapa Basu writes on footprints of two ancient hominin species ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

A study of a 12,800-year-old skull of a toddler offers a glimpse at how early Americans found food, and how their hunts may ...

These were the two most common living human species of the Pleistocene Epoch. If these human ancestors didn’t cross paths, ...

Researchers have identified a new species of ancient humans, which they have named Homo juluensis, meaning "big head," based ...

Two species of ancient humans walked beside each other 1.5 million years ago, fossil footprints have revealed.

After the extinction of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous mass extinction (the fifth mass extinction) about 66 million ...

The research included professors Kevin Hatala from Chatham U. in Pittsburgh and Craig Feibel of Rutgers and showed two human ...