A 4.4 million-year-old skeleton could show how early humans moved and began to walk upright, according to new research led by a Texas A&M anthropology professor.
The remains -- thought to be the oldest confirmed from a dog in the Americas -- support the theory that the animals may have traveled with people along a...
New interpretations based on medical imaging suggest Seqenenre-Taa-II was executed by multiple attackers and embalmers had skillfully concealed some head wounds.
New research suggests that overhunting by humans was not responsible for the extinction of mammoths, ground sloths, and other North American megafauna.
Ancient DNA from Neanderthal fecal sediments show shared beneficial microbiota living in the human gastrointestinal tract since before the separation between the Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals more than 700,000...
The analysis of sediment cores from the Mediterranean Sea combined with Earth system models tells the story of major environmental changes in North Africa over the last 160,000 years,...
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