Few people know the story of that startling finding, because the true story was suppressed and lost to history. Almost two decades ago I visited the pioneering scientists’ labs in Germany and ...

Ancient human relatives ran on two legs, like modern humans, but at a much slower pace, suggest 3D computer simulations of Australopithecus afarensis 1 — a small hominin that lived more than ...

Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.

Those genomes allowed him and his collaborators to peer into the genetic history of humans who lived in Europe at that time. Arev Sümer, lead author on the Nature paper and a PhD student in ...

People have lived in the region around Gilbbesjávri for thousands of years, leaving their trace in the surroundings. The information provided here gives an overview of the history and prehistory of ...

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons ...

The study offers great new insights into the rich tapestry of archaic and modern human genome history. They would meet yet again around 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, continuing the braided stream of ...