A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

A new, non-peer-reviewed report argues that Egypt’s Great Pyramid may be far older than the familiar Old Kingdom timeline, proposing an age in the order of tens of thousands of years. The claim hinges ...

A preliminary study, based on a new method for dating ancient structures, suggests that the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Giza ...

A new study suggests the origins of Egypt's Great Pyramid may be very different from what historians have believed for ...

A preliminary study, which utilizes erosion patterns, suggests that the age of the Great Pyramid is far older than previously ...

Ethiopia’s Afar region has stood out in the study of human evolution for its vast array of hominin fossils, from some of the earliest known Homo sapiens dating to 160,000 years, to hominins dating as ...

The Camargo Volcanic Field (CVF), located in the southeastern portion of the Mexican state of Chihuahua, is part of the Basin & Range province. With a surface of nearly 3000 km 2 and composed of ...

The Pecos River murals are a stunning collection of monumental, multicolored rock paintings in limestone rock shelters across southwest Texas and northern Mexico. They depict human-like figures that ...

Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic ...

New dating has revealed that New Mexico's last dinosaurs were healthy, diverse and thriving at the end of the Cretaceous period, suggesting non-avian dinosaurs weren't in decline before being snuffed ...

Paranthropus boisei fossils date to 1.52 million years ago Species was a member of the human evolutionary lineage Fossils show it would have been able to grasp stone tools Oct 17 (Reuters) - ...

One of the most important controversies about human evolution and expansion is when and by what route the first hominids arrived in Europe from the African continent. Now, geological dating techniques ...