The elongated skull was likely caused by a genetic condition, but it evidently didn’t get in the way of the individual’s ...

Archaeologists uncover 16 Indigenous canoes, one older than the Pyramids, revealing a vast prehistoric travel network.

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

Scientists from Arizona State University and other institutions finally assigned a species name to a fossil known as the ...

Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors ...

A new study using advanced fossil imaging reveals that ancient pterosaurs may have mastered flight almost instantly when they ...

For decades, archaeologists believed that cats first started living alongside early farming communities in the Levant — covering parts of today’s Middle East and eastern Mediterranean — around 9,500 ...

The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

The burial site was 4,500 years old, but archaeology society members saw enough evidence to believe it was already in use nearly 8,000 years earlier.

They built four models through which it could distinguish things with biological antecedents from things which lacked them. The oldest sample they identified as biological was 3.3bn years old—twice ...

Scientists say humans' fondness for alcohol traces back to primate ancestors who sought fermented fruits, shaping both ...