In a groundbreaking achievement, an international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has successfully sequenced the oldest known genomes of modern ... Cont ...

An international team of researchers published a study in the journal Nature Communications, revealing new insights into life ...

Ancient Magdalenians practiced cannibalism, consuming enemies and possibly loved ones, revealing prehistoric violence.

A new study analyzes sedimentary ancient DNA, or sedaDNA, to provide more context to the comings and goings—both human and ...

Scientists unearthed evidence of cannibalistic rituals among ancient European hunter-gatherers in Poland, dating back 18,000 ...

The Megalosaurus is essential to paleontology. Learn what discoveries made this dinosaur important.

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New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, predating the Dmanisi site in Georgia. Anthropologists continue to debate when ...

A newly described dinosaur whose fossils were uncovered by University of Wisconsin–Madison paleontologists changes what scientists previously thought about the creatures who ...

Ancient Fossilized Jawbone Reveals Unknown Human Ancestor, Belongs to 1.4 Million-Year-Old 'Nutcracker Man’ Researchers ...