La Brújula Verde reports that an extensive genetic study of human remains found at the site of Shimao in Shaanxi Province is ...

Stalagmite data suggest Homo floresiensis faced prolonged drought that stressed both them and their prey, contributing to ...

Discover the extraordinary prehistoric giants – from mega-sloths to monster sharks – that once made today’s animals look ...

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

Archaeologists are pushing the origins of art far deeper into prehistory than anyone expected, revealing painted symbols and ...

Tiny cameras threaded inside a Neandertal skull provide evidence that their big noses were not an adaptation to cold climates.

Plants have been part of our diet as long as meat has, with new evidence showing that Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens and ...

Discover how ancient conch shell trumpets in Spain helped Neolithic people communicate over distances 6,000 years ago. New study reveals their horn like sounds and cultural role.

The mysteries of the Lower Pecos cave paintings in West Texas are finally coming to light, courtesy of an intrepid new study.

Scientists have uncovered surprising evidence that humans living thousands of years ago may have kept wolves close by—long ...

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

A clay figurine about 12,000 years old that was unearthed at the site of a prehistoric village overlooking the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel depicts a woman and a goose in what may be one of the ...