The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

Thousands of years before stone houses or mud bricks, Ice Age humans in Ukraine were building shelters out of mammoth bones.

The completion of a South American lung fish genome sequencing represents one of the most remarkable moments within current ...

In ancient Judaism and early Christianity, angels were portrayed as powerful beings who guarded the Garden of Eden, ...

According to Ancient Minoan marriage rules, first cousin marriages were nothing unusual in the particular society.

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Marcel Ravidat, an 18-year-old student, was exploring the woods in Montignac in Dordogne, southern France, when his dog named ...