The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to ...

XI'AN -- A well-preserved giant panda fossil, dating back at least 10,000 years, has been discovered in a cave in Northwest ...

A tiny bone from Starosele Cave, Crimea, has yielded ancient DNA showing it belonged to a Neanderthal dubbed “Star 1”.

Nature has become a rounding error on a planet dominated by humanity, and for some things we don’t even need our machines to do it.

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

Archaeologists uncover how early humans in Italy butchered elephants and forged survival from their bones 400,000 years ago.

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly ...

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-size, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths - commonly featured on children's ...

A new look at cuts on a giant kangaroo bone reveal First Peoples as fossil collectors, not hunters who helped drive species extinct, some scientists argue.

Rock hyraxes, these stocky mammals from southern Africa often called "dassies," are now revealing unexpected information through their most unusual behaviors. These animals with dense fur and ...

Ancient teeth reveal that flexible feeders survived past climate shocks, while habitat specialists rapidly declined.