New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

The 1.5 million acre Lake Mead National Recreation Area covers “mountains, canyons, valleys and two vast lakes,” the National ...

It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

A 1.4-million-year-old fossil jaw discovered in a South African cave in 1949 has now been identified as that of a previously ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

Fossils unearthed from a Polish cave suggest early Europeans engaged in cannibalism, sometimes even eating the brains of their enemies, during a time of war about 18,000 years ago. At such a critical ...

Donald Trump's declaration of a national energy emergency wasn't shocking. What was, though, was that his order singled out ...

The fragments will be shown at Prague's National Museum as part of a "Human Origins and Fossils" exhibition for two months from August 25. The remains will be presented alongside Selam ...

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...