Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

For over 150,000 years, early Homo sapiens,physically just like us, lived with basic survival instincts, using stone tools ...

Scientists have long known that Earth’s magnetic field has not been a constant shield. Now, new interdisciplinary ...

One possible member of the new species H. juluensis isn’t a newcomer to science by any stretch. Denisovans—first identified ...

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

A Neanderthal trackway discovered in Portugal shows how an adult male and two children hunted for food 78,000 years ago.