On a wind-battered rock in the Baltic Sea, archaeologists have uncovered a puzzle that cuts to the heart of how dogs first ...

Lucy's position in the history of human evolution is currently being challenged. The Lucy fossil species, or Australopithecus afarensis, was long believed to be an ancestor species that humans ...

Remnants of long-forgotten ghost towns that once hosted bustling post offices, pubs, brothels and gambling houses lie waiting ...

Along the western edge of South America, the Andes Mountains encompass one of the largest concentrations of volcanoes on Earth. Many of these volcanoes are active, and in the historical record of ...

Someone born near the start of the 20th century could have witnessed the dawn of commercial flight, the creation of nuclear weapons, the moon landing and even the early growth ...

Tucked between dramatic red cliffs and nestled along the Price River sits Helper, Utah – a place where time seems to have slowed down just enough to let you appreciate the brushstrokes of history ...

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's ...

Researchers are looking for answers behind the mystery of Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest known primate that ever lived.

There aren't many places on Earth where you can trace human presence back nearly two million years. Lenggong is one of them.