Old Fossilized Finger Bone, Evidence of Early Human Migration and Colonization across the world Scientists discovered a ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

The research puts humans in Europe earlier than previously believed. Multiple cut-marked bones offer a key clue into the ...

The world is transitioning to renewables but in many African countries, this green energy transition isn't solving ...

Palaeoecology is the study of past ecosystems using palaeontological methods. Fossil data are used to reconstruct interactions between different species and between species and their environment.

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

Archeological findings have surpassed previous records set by Spain and Turkey with this region now being named the oldest ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big ...

Researchers have found evidence that early humans arrived in Europe half a million years earlier than previously thought at a ...

Earth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold ...

A study on the teeth of ancestors to humans that lived around 3.5 million years ago suggests they ate mainly or only plants.

The reassessment of the Ushikawa fossils follows earlier scrutiny of another purportedly ancient human find in Japan. A fossil fragment known as “Akashi Man,” thought to be more than 780,000 years old ...