In A Nutshell A tiny, 250-million-year-old fossil from South Africa offers the first compelling evidence that an ancient ...

An obsidian stone point found at the site, with fossilized plant roots attached. (Tim White) A monumental archaeological ...

Early humans were quarrying stone as far back as 220,000 years ago, revealing surprisingly advanced planning and resource use.

The study was conducted by scientists from Ahmedabad’s Physical Research Laboratory, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth’s primordial seas millions of years earlier than previously known, with an array of forms including ...

They’re not the six-sided dice we’re familiar with now, but these ancient tools were crucial for rudimentary games of chance 12,000 years ago.

Deep in the hills of central Israel, a new discovery is rewriting the history of human cooperation. For decades, scientists have debated the nature of the relationship between Neanderthals and early ...