Ancient genomes of 13 Neandertals provide a rare snapshot of their community and social organization over hundreds of thousands of years.

The first appearance of shark-like ‘jawed fish’ may have happened some 15 million years earlier than previously thought.

In a world first, researchers have revealed that early humans across southern Africa made a particular type of stone tool in the same shape.

The first ichthyosaurs swam through the primordial oceans in the early Triassic period about 250 million years ago and weighed 80 tons.

To reconstruct the cookery of people who lived thousands of years ago, bones and plant remains can tell us which ingredients were available

Earth may have experienced cycles of dryness followed by massive rain storms hundreds of miles wide that could dump feet of rain per hour.

This species lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene, around half a million years ago, and was the direct ancestor of modern humans.

A new study shows that 193 million years ago, dinosaurs lived in herds -- much earlier than previously thought.

The study provides strong evidence for the manufacture of clothing as far back as 120,000 years ago.

An international collaboration has identified what may be the oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints discovered in Tibet.

Today, more than 10 percent of all global marriages occur among first or second cousins. Ancient humans rarely chose their cousins as mates.

Titanokorys was a giant compared to most animals that lived in the seas at that time, most of which barely reached the size of a finger.