In a discovery that reshapes our understanding of early human migration in Southeast Asia, scientists have recovered the ...

A study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Fossils from 7,000-year-old Caribbean reefs show a 75% drop in sharks and a rise in prey fish numbers and size.

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete Denisovan fossil to date.

Humans have been around on Earth for thousands of years, but there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out of ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

While humans had long survived in savanna and forests, they shifted into everything from from dense rainforests to arid ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...