New findings suggest hominins entered Eurasia roughly 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, predating the Dmanisi site in Georgia.

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

Motherhood is entirely possible at the age 74—for some birds at least ... For carnivorous land mammals, bears have a fairly long reproductive window. Depending on the species, a female will ...

Analyses estimated its age between 270 and 280 million ... Descendants of the synapsid lineage, mammals owe part of their evolutionary success to creatures like the gorgonopsians. A memory, etched in ...

Perhaps hoping to gain the blessing of the stone-age hunter-gatherers that dwelt along the east coast 30,000 years ago, visitors to the Baxian Caves (八仙洞) during the 1970s would grab a handful of soil ...

Dozens of sea mammals have been found dead since last month's Russian oil tanker spill in the Black Sea, a dolphin rescue centre said Sunday, as authorities raced to contain the disaster. The spill ...

Even though intimate activity does tend to decline with age, the link between age and intimacy dysfunction isn’t as strong as you might think — and the reality might not be so harsh.

They were in situ, in their original context.’ The sound of Stone Age hunter-gatherer toolmakers at work on the veld has faded away through time, but thanks to a group of archaeologists their ...