Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America ...

Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ago, scientists report in a first-of-its-kind ...

Massive underground tunnels discovered across South America are not human-made. Scientists now believe extinct giant ground ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Ancient footprints discovered in White Sands, New Mexico, are challenging long-held beliefs about when humans first arrived ...

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Flat-topped skulls have previously been unearthed in and around territory associated with the Mayans, who never established a ...

Detail of the pit marks in the shell of the fossil horseshoe crab (Euproops danae). Photos courtesy Gregory Lewbart (North ...

One of the most famous hominin fossils may not be as familiar as we thought. The specimen, affectionately dubbed "Little Foot ...

Huge tunnels under southern Brazil and northern Argentina were potentially made by giant, Ice Age sloths for refuge and rest ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...