South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

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

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

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.

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

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

These Early Humans Lived 300,000 Years Ago—But Had Modern Faces. Some modern human traits evolved earlier, and across wider swaths of Africa, than once thought.

Science communicator Hank Green explains how our species’ unique intelligence got us into this climate mess—and how it will help us solve it ...

The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it ...

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

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