Technological advances over the past four decades have turned mobile devices and computers into the world's largest library, ...

Fossilized footprints discovered along Portugal’s southwestern coast date to around 82,000 years ago. The tracks were left by adults and children and provide rare insight into Neanderthal family life, ...

A new study has revealed that two 7,000-year-old mummies found in the Sahara Desert belong to a previously unknown branch of ...

For decades, the Schoningen spears held pride of place as the world's oldest hunting weapons. Eight wooden javelins, pulled ...

For years, the oldest widely accepted cave art came from Spain, where mineral crusts dated paintings to more than 64,000 years. That work also relied on uranium decay in crusts, so it offered a ...

Twelve years ago, the NBA was rocked to its very core—not by a trade, an injury, or a free agent signing, but by a journeyman player named Jason Collins coming out as gay. It was a huge deal for those ...

Proto-Indo-European gave birth to a plethora of modern languages, but there remains a question mark over its origins ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

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

Genndy Tartakovsky defies our short attention spans with the quiet tale of a lost soul seeking the ones he loves ...