Newly identified Nipponopterus mifunensis reflects global collaboration and showcases Japan's rich prehistoric heritage. A ...

A new analysis of the ancient human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico offers more evidence that they are ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.

How did Homo sapiens manage to leave Africa around 50,000 years ago, when earlier treks out of the continent had ended in ...

In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.