Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery of 115,000-year-old human footprints in the Arabian Peninsula, specifically at Alathar Lake. This finding challenges previous assumptions that early ...

Learn how new research challenges the age of Monte Verde and what it means for early human migration in South America.

Evidence from a remote site on Sulawesi reveals that ancient human relatives crossed a deep ocean barrier more than a million years ago. The discovery extends the earliest known human movements in ...

As human groups migrated and settled across Holocene Eurasia, dogs often traveled with them, researchers report in a new genomic study – and sometimes dogs were traded among populations. The study ...

A 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Gona, Ethiopia reveals new details about the first hominin species to disperse from Africa. Summary: Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

A top (a), rear (b), bottom (c) and front (d) view of the vertebra discovered at 'Ubeidiya. Credit: Dr. Alon Barash, Bar-Ilan University A new study led by researchers from Bar-Ilan University, Ono ...

Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal ...