Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

In China, researchers studying the burial site of one of the world's most well-preserved mummies also unearthed what's ...

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

"Whatever the chain of events, only those remains here mentioned have been found up to this day," Daniel Torres Navarro ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat ...