Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

Remarkably well-preserved remains of a 1,000-year-old individual from a cave in central Mexico provided researchers with an ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and gorilla-like strength.

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

Along Turkey’s northwestern shoreline, where the Aegean Sea meets the olive-covered ridges of Anatolia, lies a quiet district ...

At Rome’s Casal Lumbroso site, humans 400,000 years ago turned a dead elephant into food and tools—proof of astonishing ...

For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully preserved after death by being smoke-dried – a ...

Scientists say centuries of human life have been preserved inside bearded vulture nests in Spain, finding hundreds of human ...

As ancient humans left Africa, they encountered many harsh environments including the Sahara and the high Arctic, but one of ...

Scientists discovered a 675-year-old shoe perfectly preserved in a vulture's nest in Spain. Researchers say a lot can be learned about human history and ecology from studying bearded vulture nests.