Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern ...

Seed plants are essential as a source of food, fuel, medicine, and more. Now, a multidisciplinary team of researchers has ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions ...

Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists today published fresh chemical evidence of Earth's ...

The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species ...

The study found that early humans passed down tool-making skills for hundreds of thousands of years in Kenya as their climate ...

An interview with Hunt for the Oldest DNA director Niobe Thompson about chronicling Eske Willerslev's breakthrough research ...