Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra ...

A new study led by Dr. Aurélie Manin from the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford has traced the incredible ...

A sequence of footprints hidden deep within a long-dried paleo‑lake bed were discovered in 2021 by archaeologists, pushing back the purported arrival of early North American settlers between 23,000 an ...

How did Homo sapiens manage to leave Africa around 50,000 years ago, when earlier treks out of the continent had ended in ...