A sweeping new archaeological discovery could fundamentally reshape what we know about early human intelligence and cultural ...

Scientists say tailored clothes, ochre-based sunscreen, and cave shelter helped Homo sapiens survive a magnetic shift 41,000 ...

Earth's Northern Lights typically dance near the poles, but 41,000 years ago, they lit up skies over North Africa and ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

The bones show people were coming over the mountain tops to trade, says an archeologist working with K’ómoks First Nation ...

UNESCO designated 16 new geoparks, bringing the total number of sites in the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network to 229 in 50 countries. The network ...

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

Ancient rock paintings have been uncovered in a cave within Brazil's Itatiaia National Park. Located at an altitude of 2,350 meters in the Mantiqueira Mountains on the border of Rio de Janeiro and ...

A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man in the Natural History ... tailored clothes and caves—during a period of unusually strong solar and cosmic radiation. The research is detailed in a study ...

His heavily textured paintings brought him renown in the 1980s. In the ’90s, Nick Nolte played a character inspired by him in a Martin Scorsese film. By Richard Sandomir Chuck Connelly ...