Sixteen dugout canoes, some older than Egypt’s pyramids, have been identified beneath a Wisconsin lake, turning a quiet ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

However, recent research challenges this “man the hunter” hypothesis, revealing a more nuanced reality in which women played ...

A genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

Today the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable - but 100,000 years ago the area was full of animals and ancient humans ...

Archaeologists discovered 6,000-year-old flint tools beneath the Palace of Westminster that predate Stonehenge, along with medieval artifacts and Roman remains.

Deep in the jungles of Vietnam lies a hidden world untouched for millions of years—where clouds form underground, rainforests ...

"Early-life malnutrition has been consistently associated with reduced brain volume and cognitive impairments, highlighting the critical importance of adequate energy and nutrient intake during ...

Natufian clay figurine from Israel reveals an early story about how people connected with animals and used art to understand their world.

Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea—a place where the ...

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...