Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...

Nowadays archaeologists guess that ancient humans first entered the Americas as long as 24,000 years ago, perhaps via a sea ...

Scientists have sequenced RNA from a nearly 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg, the oldest ancient RNA ever recovered. These ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am the youngest of three brothers, and have always been close to my brother who is three years older than me. My other brother is seven years older, and because of the age gap, we ...

In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative. Dated to around 3.4 million years ago, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a musical instrument so old that it predates most forms of human culture. Crafted from bone and shaped to produce eerie, haunting tones, it offers a rare glimpse into the ...

Sixteen years ago a group of anthropologists discovered 3.4-million-year-old fossilized foot bones in Ethiopia. While they suspected the foot belonged to an ancient human that likely lived alongside ...

A mysterious fossilized foot found years ago in Ethiopia belongs to a controversial and enigmatic human relative that lived at the same time as our ancestor " Lucy," a new study finds. This discovery ...

Found near the Sea of Galilee, a figurine depicting a crouching woman and a goose is now hailed as the earliest known representation of human-animal interaction. This incredible find pushes back the ...

While much of the history of life on Earth is written, the opening chapters are murky at best. On our ever-changing world, the older a rock is, the more it has changed, obscuring or even erasing ...