Seven footprints believed to be about 115,000 years old have been found amid various prehistoric animal prints.

At times during the BBC's new landmark documentary series Human (BBC2, Mon, 9pm), the evolution of our species sounds like a ...

Beneath the waves off Indonesia, archaeologists have uncovered a shocking discovery that rewrites history. Fossils of ancient ...

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Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

Our readers delve back millennia to answer this one, looking at the ancient Sumerians, the Babylonians and the Egyptians to ...

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of human migration.

Iceman may have come to an unfortunate end while crossing the Alps more than 5,000 years ago, but thanks to his ...

New study uses DNA evidence to challenge claims that humans arrived in Sahul 65,000 years ago, pointing to a later migration ...

I have never met the leprechaun but today is his birthday and he wants everyone to make a wish and blow out the candle,” the ...

N eanderthals and Homo sapiens repeatedly interbred, shared genes, and merged populations over the course of nearly 250,000 ...