When a stone sits on the Earth’s surface, cosmic rays quietly pepper it, leaving behind rare isotopes like tiny time stamps.

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...

Researchers used three different methods to date the site, challenging the preexisting notion of the site being between 1.2 ...

Findings suggest human ancestors spread across Asia earlier, faster and possibly more successfully than commonly believed ...

When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...