Until now, the phenotypic diversity among European hunter-gatherers was only known from a small number of fossils and was thought to be fairly homogeneous,” said Dr. Maïté Rivollat, lead geneticist of ...

In these decades, one of the most intriguing puzzles in paleoanthropology has been the Harbin skull known as “Dragon Man.” ...

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...

A prominent brow ridge with a brain as large as modern humans and Neanderthals — that’s what the archaic human group, the Denisovans, looked like, according to work published this week in Cell and ...

Isabelle De Groote, an archaeologist at Ghent University who leads the research project on Mesolithic Belgium, told CNN that ...

Recently discovered bones of a basilosaurus in Mississippi offer insight into its life and what happened after its death.

The secret is out: Man and gomphotheres once coexisted in Sonora ... found together with implements made by Clovis people, the oldest known inhabitants of North America, Holliday said.

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian ... to name Australia's earliest tree frog in honour of a man who was a giant in Australian frog research and in ...

And it predates the previous oldest ivory objects by nearly 300,000 ... Perhaps, around a prehistoric campfire, someone picked up a broken tusk and showed a child how to shape it, prehistoric ...

Beneath the waves of Lake Huron lie clues to the region’s prehistoric past, including the oldest-known human evidence of a lost civilization in the Great Lakes. Scientists are uncovering hunting camps ...