A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Archaeologists in 2023 announced the discovery of the oldest known wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia. The discovery ...

A newly published research paper has reignited debate about when humans first set foot in Australia, proposing a later date of arrival that contradicts ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

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, ...

Neanderthals had a taste for fat, and they worked hard to get it. Long before humans built cities or invented writing, these ...

A 140,000-year-old hybrid child's skull found in Israel shows traits of both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, rewriting the ...

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by ...

New study uses DNA evidence to challenge claims that humans arrived in Sahul 65,000 years ago, pointing to a later migration ...

Forget the neat evolutionary timeline—mammals didn’t gradually walk upright. Their ancestors tried strange and varied postures for millions of years before finally hitting on today’s ...