Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit ...

In a playful surprising and thoughtprovoking portrait of our time on earth National Geographic demonstrates in a series of remarkable visuals what makes up an average human life today and how ...

But who were these ancient ancestors? And where do they fit on the human family tree? Researchers think they finally have some answers to these questions. They’ve successfully analyzed the DNA ...

Among those footprints, scientists have found new evidence of ancient activity recorded in the sand — and it’s transforming their understanding of early human technology. These, too ...

A huge discovery has been made in the caves of Rincon de la Victoria. A research team found human footprints over 40,000 years old, the oldest recorded in the Mediterranean. This discovery was led by ...

The level of human disturbance in each region was measured using the human footprint index. The index includes factors like human population density, land-use changes (i.e. urban development and ...

A newer dating technique using cosmogenic isotopes finds Australopithecus remains from the Sterkfontein caves to be about 1 million years older than previous estimates, potentially changing scientists ...