Israeli researchers uncovered dozens of newly discovered Dead Sea Scroll fragments containing biblical texts dating back ...

Just less than two and a half million years ago, in the Early Pleistocene epoch of Eastern Africa, a group of hairy, bipedal apes evolved, and soon after, began to use basic stone tools. They didn ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

One of them comes from the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia and has been attributed to Homo habilis. The other two were discovered in South Africa—a jaw found in Kromdraai and a maxilla from the Drimolen ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

The small-bodied hominin, named Homo luzonensis, lived on the island of Luzon at least 50,000 to 67,000 years ago. The hominin—identified from a total of seven teeth and six small bones—hosts ...

Podcaster Show PlayerExcavators are digging out the skeleton at a site in Lusk, Wyoming. On Sunday, June 22, a team of 10, with people from the museum and the wider Quad-Cities community, will ...

Your eyes are not deceiving you. Glance up in the Steele Ocean Sciences Building and you’ll see something that was definitely not there before. It’s the 18-metre skeleton of a blue whale mounted to ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found 6,000-year-old skeletons from Colombia with ancient DNA that could rewrite human history. The incredible remains belonging to hunter-gatherers at the ancient preceramic si… ...

Archaeologists have uncovered 6,000-year-old skeletons in Colombia that belonged to a mysterious group of people that could rewrite human history. The remains, discovered at the ancient preceramic ...

The four skeletons had all of their limbs. Death dates were key because three men were buried together, allowing the team to pinpoint three soldiers who died around the same time.