Fish otoliths — the calcium carbonate structures found in fishes' inner ears — from human harvested fish, prey fish (those ...

When we think of fossils, giant prehistoric creatures like dinosaurs may come to mind. But the fossil record also holds the remains of smaller ...

New evidence from White Sands National Park, the location of the oldest evidence of humans in the Americas, sheds light on ...

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

A 19-million-year-old currawong fossil found in New Zealand sheds light on the ancient birdlife that once thrived in the ...

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science.. The ...

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.