Humans in Argentina may have survived 20,000 years ago by hunting giant armadillos, according to a recent study. This discovery adds to the growing evidence that people arrived in the Americas earlier ...

Archeologists have unearthed what could be the oldest human face in Western Europe. Dated at between 1.1 and 1.4 million ...

"When these giant ice sheets melted ... Professor Kirkland said. "These ancient climate shifts demonstrate that environmental changes, whether natural or human-driven, have profound and lasting ...

Conservationists call for urgent action as climate change and human activities continue to threaten the millennia-long ...

New research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers ... whether natural or human-driven, have profound and lasting impacts. "Understanding these past events can ...

Over a million years ago, ancient human ancestors sat down to shave flakes off bones, producing a tool with a carefully created sharp edge. According to Jackson Njau, an archaeologist at ...

Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from its star. From pole to equator, the sphere is covered in a thick crust of ice ...

Ancient humans were regularly making tools out of animal bones 1.5 million years ago – more than a million years earlier than previously thought. This indicates that they could adapt the ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the ...

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The new discovery, published Wednesday in Nature, reveals that ancient humans “had rather more complex tool kits than previously we thought,” incorporating a variety of materials, said William ...