Researchers have discovered the world's longest trail of fossilized human footprints at White Sands National Park, New Mexico ...

On a windswept bluff above the Ros and Rosava rivers in what is now central Ukraine, ice age hunter-gatherers once built ...

During the coldest part of our ancient history, humans survived by tucking themselves into caves in the central Balkans, showing a resilience previously unknown to researchers and opening a fresh ...

These footprints in New Mexico might rewrite the history of the peopling of the Americas. Credit: BENNET ET AL./SCIENCE The wide expanse of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico holds the preserved ...

In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans butchered animals. Amidst bones, archaeologists found complex stone tools that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (ansap/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A brainy human relative who lived during an ice age nearly 150,000 years ago adapted to the ...

Ecologists have described the mammoth steppe as one of the most productive large-herbivore ecosystems in Earth's history.

Artifacts found in the Oregon mountains challenge a long-held belief of human history. The discovery is also four times older ...

Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the stone tools were made during a harsh ice age In central China, scientists ...