On a windswept bluff above the Ros and Rosava rivers in what is now central Ukraine, ice age hunter-gatherers once built ...

Researchers have discovered the world's longest trail of fossilized human footprints at White Sands National Park, New Mexico ...

During the coldest part of our ancient history, humans survived by tucking themselves into caves in the central Balkans, showing a resilience previously unknown to researchers and opening a fresh ...

These footprints in New Mexico might rewrite the history of the peopling of the Americas. Credit: BENNET ET AL./SCIENCE The wide expanse of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico holds the preserved ...

A study published in Nature on March 25, 2026, has identified the oldest genetic evidence for domestic dogs in Europe and what is now Turkiye, pushing back the confirmed timeline for dog domestication ...

In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans butchered animals. Amidst bones, archaeologists found complex stone tools that ...

Ecologists have described the mammoth steppe as one of the most productive large-herbivore ecosystems in Earth's history.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (ansap/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A brainy human relative who lived during an ice age nearly 150,000 years ago adapted to the ...

Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the stone tools were made during a harsh ice age In central China, scientists ...