Seven remarkably preserved footprints in an ancient lakebed represent the oldest evidence of human presence in the Middle East, dating back approximately 115,000 years before the Ice Age ...

Seven 115,000-year-old human footprints have been discovered, preserved in an ancient lakebed in Saudi Arabia.

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of human migration.

When ancient microbes died, they did not leave skeletons though some have argued controversially that colonies left ancient microstructures ...

New analyses have overturned a long-taught chapter of Japanese prehistory: fossils from a Toyohashi quarry once hailed as the ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

Everyone knows about Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, but did you know the U.S. is home to over 130 national monuments just ...

Indigenous and other Ecuadorians have lived with millions of gallons of toxic pollution from Texaco’s operations for decades.

A 430-million-year-old fossil reveals that the first leeches were ocean predators, not bloodsuckers. The discovery radically shifts the timeline of leech evolution by more than 200 million years.

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...