From fat cells that stretch like spandex to more flexible muscles, scientists are finding that women’s bodies are just as ...

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

The dry deserts of north-eastern Saudi Arabia were once wet enough to host vibrant communities of animals – and researchers have just found evidence that ancient hominins lived there too. “This paper ...

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The animal history documentary series Prehistoric Planet returns today on Apple TV with a new Ice Age installment. If you aren’t a subscriber, now is a great time with a 50% off Black Friday deal ...

The Jomon people living in prehistoric Japan had "little to no" Denisovan DNA, suggesting their ancestors may not have been in contact with this now-extinct group of Eurasian humans, a new study ...

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...

An ancient fragment of bone discovered in the Crimean cave of Starosele is changing what we think about how and where Neanderthals migrated. The fragment, now known as Star 1, turned out to be ...

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Scientists have discovered evidence of stone megastructures on the Karst Plateau on the border of Slovenia and Italy that were most likely built before the Late Bronze Age. These enormous structures ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning ...