A fossilized human footprint found in southern Chile has been dated to 15,600 years ago, making it the oldest known footprint in the Americas. The discovery suggests that humans may have reached South ...

The timing of the first human arrival in the Americas remains one of the most debated questions in archaeology. Evidence from butchered mammoth bones, stone tools, and ancient footprints suggests ...

David Bustos heard about the “ghost tracks” when he first went to White Sands National Park in New Mexico to work as a wildlife scientist in 2005. When the ground was wet enough at certain times of ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

Scientists have uncovered the world s earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old child from Israel s Skhul Cave dating back 140,000 years. This discovery ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on record? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a beautifully preserved face of a 1.5-million-year-old human ...