What if humans left their first mark on the Americas earlier than we think? An anthropologist said footprints uncovered here ...

Last week, science writer Christopher Plain published a story in the online magazine The Debrief (which describes its subject matter as “Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious”) about ...

While all types of ancient remains are valuable to science, teeth— protected by enamel, the hardest substance in the body—are ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

A new study is backing up the age of what is believed to be the oldest known human footprints in North America – found at White Sands National Park.

Denisovans, Neanderthals, and early Homo sapiens coexisted and even interbred, leaving behind traces of their DNA in modern humans. In fact, many people today carry small amounts of Denisovan DNA, a ...

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

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit ...

Other evidence of a hoax is that the Montana petrified man was hardly the only such curiosity in the 1800s and early 1900s. The famous Cardiff Giant, found on a farm near Cardiff, N.Y., in 1869 ...

Archaeology Discovery of partially fossilized face belongs to oldest human ancestor in Western Europe, new study says Researchers hope the discovery will provide some new insights about the first ...

Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest-known human fossil ever discovered in Western Europe.

In a cave in northern Spain, researchers have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor — the oldest human fossil ever found in Western Europe. The remains ...