Step back into the Paleolithic and meet Europe’s first modern humans. Discover how the Cro-Magnons lived, hunted, and laid the foundation for future European civilizations.

A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

It’s been some 40,000 years since the last Homo neanderthalensis, or Neanderthals, disappeared from sight. Our closest human relative, the Neanderthal continues to fascinate scientists and the ...

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THE recent communication by Miss Garrod 1 concerning discoveries of human remains in Palestine raises questions of such wide and general interest, and bears so directly on work in which we have ...

Archaeology Human Evolution Who were the Denisovans, archaic humans who lived in Asia and went extinct around 30,000 years ago?

Here, Shen and coauthors achieve strong coupling between polaritons, formed by strongly coupled magnons and photons, and phonons, paving the way for polaromechanical hybrid systems.

Read latest scientific findings on ancient DNA, including research on DNA preserved from early life forms and early humans.

Neanderthals went extinct Our species, Homo sapiens, has been around for at least 200,000 years. That's a long time, but like all animals on Earth we are at risk of becoming extinct.