Recent research has shown that engravings in a cave in La Roche-Cotard (France), which has been sealed for thousands of years, were actually made by Neanderthals. The findings reveal that the ...

For decades, we thought the first humans to arrive in the Americas came across the Bering Land Bridge 13,000 years ago. New evidence is changing that picture. When you purchase through links on our ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The origin of our species, Homo sapiens, has puzzled paleoanthropologists for generations — and ...

SAO PAULO — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time, scientists ...

The 2.8 million year old fossil was discovered in Ethiopia. This image provided by William Kimbel shows different views of the LD 350-1 mandible. The scale bars indicate 1 cm. The jawbone fragment is ...

Most people, regardless of their religion, know of Adam and Eve - the couple portrayed in the Bible as the first humans on earth. The age-old question surrounding the duo has been, though - did they ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...