The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

A newly published research paper has reignited debate about when humans first set foot in Australia, proposing a later date ...

If you've lately been feeling that the "Jurassic Park" franchise has jumped an even more ancient creature -- the shark -- ...

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

The sacred yellow serpents of Asclepius, the porieas, symbolized healing, renewal, divine power in ancient Greek medical and ...

It may seem unusual to think of chimpanzees as doctors, but they more closely resemble human healers than you may expect.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.