For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their ...

The piece of cranium, found in 1985 on Yámana Beach, is believed to be the oldest human remains ever discovered in the South ...

For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to ...

The photographs that accompanied each release told a parallel story of what extreme deprivation, uncertainty, and suffering can do to a human body and spirit.

The skull fragment, found in 1985 on Yámana Beach, is believed to be the oldest known human remains from the South Pole ...

While treasure hunting might seem like a thing of the past, there are many beaches across the globe where you can search for ...

Once depicted as barbaric, grunting, sub-humans, Neanderthals are now known to have had the same or similar levels of intelligence as modern humans. They also had their own distinct culture. Here we ...

Yet the true power of forensic science extends far beyond these images. It is a multidisciplinary enterprise—an ...

A pair of Ice Age “puppies” preserved in Siberian permafrost for over 14,000 years have turned out to be wolves, not early domesticated dogs. A recent study of two ancient “puppies” dating back more ...

You're always walking on a place where someone's been buried. And, I think, you know, some people get a little bit scared ...

In a landmark study, scientists have reconstructed ancient DNA from Burzahom, a Neolithic site in Kashmir, revealing genetic ...