"Everlasting geological signature." Scientists make grim prediction about humanity's legacy in the future: 'The first step to ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

Early human migration timeline into South America has stirred debate. Researchers have long argued about when these first ...

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Manufactured objects will form distinctive, if sometimes hard to interpret, clues to human existence, paleontologist authors ...

Plastic bottles, smartphones, chicken bones – and the wider debris of everyday life – are tipped to outlast human ...

As I write, hundreds of ancient human remains are secretly being buried in a remote desert 1,000km from Sydney (New South ...

With continued excavation at Swartkrans, researchers hope to uncover more of SWT1/HR-2’s skeleton, which could further ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

One would think that Republicans would know better. One would think that Republicans from an important oil- and gas-producing ...

President Trump's efforts to overhaul the Environmental Protection Agency are being cheered by many in the fossil fuel ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...