Footage shows how researchers discovers fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited ...

Scientists believe that 300,000 years ago in Lower Saxony, Homo heidelbergensis shared space with a now-extinct species of elephants ( Palaeoloxodon antiquus) along a lakeshore, thanks to newly ...

Researchers say the remains of ‘Paranthropus boisei’ reveal that this ancient relative was capable of powerfully manipulating ...

In the quiet layers of rock, footprints, bones, and leaves tell a story of worlds lost, and of our own uncertain future. The ...

Each year 500,000 people visit New Mexico's White Sands National Monument to hike and frolic among gypsum dunes. Aside from the tourists, few animals in the region get much larger than a coyote or ...

New genetic techniques are shedding light on a mysterious part of our family tree—ancient human relatives called the Denisovans that emerged during the Pleistocene epoch, approximately 370,000 years ...

Ancient fossils were stolen from Death Valley National Park recently, citing a need to curb vandalism and theft at national parks. Fossil footprints that scientists say are three to five million years ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use—people cleaning their ...

Dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia, unearthed a treasure trove of thousands of animal fossils, including those of a previously unknown Homo erectus population. A team of scientists ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Fossilized footprints of Homo heidelbergensis located in Lower Saxony represent the oldest known footprints in Germany. The 300,000-year-old site ...