Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

The oldest-ever human footprint on the Arabian peninsula has been found carefully preserved in a prehistoric mudhole that ...

A groundbreaking discovery in northern Saudi Arabia has uncovered ancient human footprints that shed new light on the ...

From indestructible tardigrades to body-merging comb jellies, animals can teach humans so much about medicine, robotics, ...

An evolutionary biologist in China has built a case against the long-reigning 'out of Africa' theory, which suggests modern ...

Explore the story of the Anunnaki, advanced beings from Nibiru who came to Earth 450,000 years ago. Learn how their search for gold shaped ancient civilizations and left behind a mysterious legacy.

The research is part of the Early Occupation of Sicily (EOS) project, directed by Dr. Ilaria Patania, an assistant professor ...

Light helps explains the evolution of our skin color, why some of us have curly hair, and the size of our eyes. And light ...

What may surprise you, though, is how well our most ancient ancestors ate. One reason they led quite a healthy life was that ...

Many species of animals go through mass migrations, but there’s likely no species on Earth that has migrated to more ...

BEIJING -- Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in East China, identified as ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in east China identified as an extinct species of leopard cat Th ...