Recent scientific breakthroughs highlight diverse discoveries, ranging from a small dinosaur fossil in Argentina to insights into prehistoric interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

In Argentina, researchers have discovered a well-preserved fossil of one of the world's smallest-known dinosaurs, Alnashetri cerropoliciensis. Scientists also reveal insights into Neanderthal-Homo ...

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — meaning women moved to join the man’s family — while human society was the ...

The transition from non-life to life was very likely aided by an asteroid hitting Earth, prebiotic chemistry, molecular ...

“The results demonstrate that Homo sapiens during the late [Middle Stone Age] mastered precise, pre-planned patterns anchored in specific geometric affordances: orthogonality [meaning the use of right ...

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

Archaeologists report that 60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal humanity’s earliest known use of geometry.

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...