Footage shows how researchers discovers fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate gave final passage to an annual military policy bill Wednesday that will authorize $901 billion in defense programs while pressuring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide ...

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...

University of Chicago and Cornell University researchers analyzed wearable health care electronics and reported carbon ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

The Murcia tracksites confirm that straight-tusked elephants, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, crossed Spain’s southeastern coastal corridor about 125,000 years ago, leaving behind footprints that are now ...