New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

The close relationship between humans and dogs has been ongoing for more than 14,000 years, a new study has discovered.

For most of human history, straight, well spaced teeth were the norm, not a luxury that required years of metal and elastic bands. Archaeologists routinely lift ancient skulls from the ground and find ...

A groundbreaking discovery from ancient DNA has solved a longstanding puzzle regarding two prehistoric individuals, revealing that they both suffered from a rare genetic growth disorder. The findings, ...

New research has revealed that ancient people in southern Arabia dined on an apex predator — sharks. The study, recently published in the journal Antiquity, centers on a tomb in Wadi Nafūn, an ...

Researchers think that the world's oldest cave painting, found on Sulawesi in Indonesia, could tell us more about how creative ancient humans were. The wall art, studied by Professor Brumm at ...

The bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like? Paleoanthropologists study millions of years of fossil evidence to try and ...