Ancient humans living across Southeast Asian islands over 40,000 years ago were building sturdy, seafaring boats with plant ...
Venus figurines, with exaggerated sexual characteristics such as big hips and breasts, began appearing about 40,000 years ago ...
Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ...
Traces of the unknown new genome were detected in two teeth and a finger bone of a Denisovan, which was discovered in a Siberian cave. There is not much data available about the appearance of ...
At Rome’s Casal Lumbroso site, humans 400,000 years ago turned a dead elephant into food and tools—proof of astonishing ...
Scientists found that one tiny DNA change in the NOVA1 gene helped modern humans resist lead exposure that harmed ...
In a remote region of Brazil, archaeologists have unearthed rock art dating back approximately 9,000 years, which ...
Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...
Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million years, but the toxic metal may have actually helped our ...
Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu. While analyzing over 300 skeletal remains excavated in northwestern Rome, a team of ...