Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful of teeth found at the Ledi-Geraru site in Ethiopia suggest that diverse ...
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.
Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...
Migration flows through Latin America collapsed in 2025, and criminal groups scrambled to fill the multibillion-dollar hole in their profits.
The initiative coincides with the population growth at the reserve. Situated at the Yangtze River estuary, Chongming Dongtan ...
Tragically, the conditions that fueled the first wave of genocide in Gaza are being meticulously reconstructed.
A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's ...
This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...
The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.
Bureaucracy, in a formulation by the great German sociologist Max Weber, fanatically defends secrecy, and is bound to confect any explanation in doing ...
The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...
Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the ...