Uncovering India's genetic richness through comprehensive genomic mapping reveals unique ancestry and health implications for ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released ...

A new study published June 18 in the journal Nature has uncovered a “huge surprise” about humans in Africa 50,000 years ago.

The first large-scale study of ancient human genomes from sub-Saharan Africa opens a long-awaited window into the identities of prehistoric populations in that part of the world, providing new ...

A section of the Appalachian Mountains discovered in Mexico is forcing scientists to redraw their maps of ancient Earth. The Appalachians are a series of mountain ranges in eastern North America ...

Beth Moon’s images of ancient trees, so stunning in their stature and grandeur, straddle the line between fantasy and reality. For Diamond Nights, she spent many moonless nights in the African ...

Three massive genetic studies draw a new map of ancient human migrations. ... a small number of ancient humans left Africa — which show up around 40,000 to 60,000 years ago as a huge reduction ...

The East African man’s genome, the first map of ancient human DNA from Africa, helped to determine that a population closely related to Europe’s first farmers made major inroads in Africa, the ...

Large Cache of Texts May Offer Insight Into One of Africa’s Oldest Written Languages Archaeologists in Sudan have uncovered the largest assemblage of Meroitic inscriptions to date ...

Step by step. In this illustrated map of ancient human footprints preserved at the Engare Sero site, 17 tracks heading southwest may have been made by a group of mostly women foraging for food.

New research disputes a long-held view that our earliest tool-bearing ancestors contributed to the demise of large mammals in Africa over the last several million years. Instead, the researchers ...

Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount ...