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

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

The "Dragon Man" skull reveals groundbreaking insights into Denisovans' genetics, appearance, and impact on modern humans.

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from ...

Wooller knows that mammoths lived on Alaska’s St. Paul Island until about 5,600 years ago and on Russia’s Wrangell Island 4,000 years ago. The youngest mammoth fossil ever found in mainland Alaska is ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the “Burtele Foot” discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, ...

In the heart of North Little Rock lies a natural masterpiece that somehow remains off the radar – Emerald Park, where dramatic bluffs, pristine trails, and jaw-dropping river views create an outdoor ...

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

It wasn’t all doom and gloom in 2025. There were positive developments globally science and climate, in particular.