Tools used for digging up underground plant foods, supporting the idea of a plant-based diet among early humans.

"Whatever the chain of events, only those remains here mentioned have been found up to this day," Daniel Torres Navarro ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...

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

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

Sphenodraco scandentis is a relative of lizards that would have climbed among the trees in ancient Jurassic forests.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil's National Museum offered a glimpse of its renovated building and collection on Monday, two days ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected ...

An international team of scientists with a variety of backgrounds has found evidence that a boomerang found in a cave in ...

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing matter, methane fuels sea spiders’ diet, and more.