Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

Did you know that homo sapiens were not the only type of ancient "human" to exist? During most of the past 2 million years or so, there were several species of hominids on Earth at any given time. You ...

Genetic research does not always produce tidy answers. Sometimes it reveals traces that raise more questions than they settle ...

The latest discoveries in Central China's Henan province are filling critical gaps in understanding East Asia's role in human evolution during a key period of the Paleolithic era, shedding light on ...

The Coal Seam Fire—so named because it sits along a coal seam—was set alight during the Plateau Fire, which hit the region in the summer of 2018. A group of researchers are scheduled to speak at the ...