"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.

An analysis of ancient animal bones found in Germany suggests that Neanderthals extracted grease from them to gobble up 125,000 years ago.

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

The boomerang, found in a cave in southern Poland, may be the oldest in the world, dating back 40,000 years, according to researchers.

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.

Two recent papers, however, have shed light on what fungi were up to before 400 million years ago, the age of the oldest, non-controversial fungal fossils. In May, a team of researchers published ...