New research uses 3D modeling to reconstruct Lucy's running style, revealing surprising insights into the evolution of human ...

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

While strolling on a beach in Maui over the weekend before Christmas, admiring the massive waves that were pounding the coast ...

Researchers found evidence that early versions of syphilis-causing bacteria existed in the Americas long before the arrival of Columbus ...

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...

What may surprise you, though, is how well our most ancient ancestors ate. One reason they led quite a healthy life was that ...

New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the ...

A study has provided fascinating insights into how ancient humans interacted with Amazonian ecosystems centuries ago.

The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, spread across Europe in the 14th century, wiping out as many as 50 million ...

WUHAN -- The restored statues of a pair of fossil human skulls, dating back to one million years ago, were unveiled by the ...

BEIJING -- Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in East China, identified as ...