Jean-Jacques Hublin discovered Homo sapiens fossils that pushed back our species’ origins by 100,000 years. Now, in a new ...

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

Discovered over a century ago, the late Upper Paleolithic archeological site included stone and bone tools, evidence of ...

Fossil of Ancient Animal With Long Limbs Discovered, Research Reveals There Were Ancestors of Horses A team of researchers ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

An international research team has gained new insights into the burial rituals of Late Ice Age societies in Central Europe. Signs of human remains from the Maszycka Cave in southern Poland being ...

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...

A SUDDEN population increase in Europe some 20,000 years ago forced our ancient human ancestors to battle it out over resources. And these early humans fought a fight so fierce, they even ate ...