A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

The imprints were fossilized in the mud, perfectly preserved for over 100,000 years. These footprints are the oldest known human traces found in the Arabian Peninsula and may redefine our ...

Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the ...

Archaeologists in Spain uncover 850,000-year-old child remains in Gran Dolina cave, the earliest case of human cannibalism in ...

"Turning to the possible origins of these human remains, I would like to put forth the hypothesis that, for unknown reasons, the woman could have been a member of a group of 19th-century sealers ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back about two million ...

An international team of scientists with a variety of backgrounds has found evidence that a boomerang found in a cave in Poland decades ago may be the oldest one ever reported. In their study ...