A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

Discovered over a century ago, the late Upper Paleolithic archeological site included stone and bone tools, evidence of ...

On this episode of Hacking Humans, we are going old school with Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan sans T-Minus host Maria Varmazis (as she was hanging out with astronauts at the SpaceCom event). Not to ...

R1, which led to Nvidia losing nearly $600 billion in a day. This breakthrough highlighted AI's potential, reminiscent of ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

For years, researchers believed that the world's oldest ochre mine, Ngwenya in Eswatini, was the only source of ochre pigment for early human communities. However, a groundbreaking new study published ...

Neanderthal blood protein differences linked to health risks Rare RhD type incompatible with other hominid blood types Genetic incompatibilities may explain Neanderthal extinction ...

This early-branching population has no descendants ... and colleagues’ study relates to the timing of Denisovan admixture with modern humans. Because this event occurred after the Neanderthal ...

A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists ... "Thus the well-preserved Harbin cranium would represent an early Denisovan. Ongoing research by other teams points to the same ...