A new study reveals that humans were extensively using fire to modify landscapes as far back as 50,000 years ago. That’s at ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

The earliest ever human DNA from Scandinavia is set to help humans know about the elusive people who first settled in the ...

Humans were present in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers from ...

People have lived in Big Sky Country for a little more than 10,000 years. But living things creeped and crawled and swam ...

Scientists uncovered ancient avocado remains in a Honduran cave, offering genetic clues that could protect the crop from ...

Captain America #1 hits stores Wednesday as Steve Rogers faces his first encounter with Doctor Doom in this new era from Chip Zdarsky and Valerio Schiti.

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake ...

What if humans left their first mark on the Americas earlier than we think? An anthropologist said footprints uncovered here ...