Ancient DNA is turning human prehistory into something startlingly intimate. Instead of a clean handoff from one species to another, the last 50,000 years look more like a long, tangled story of ...

The stencil, which had remained largely unnoticed amidst more recent paintings of animals and figures, is now the oldest artwork ever discovered. In fact, it is so old that it offers a rare glimpse ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to rethink how our species emerged and spread. Instead of a neat story in which ...

This 'negative hand,' which researchers have dated to at least 67,800 years ago, is now the oldest known example of cave ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

When Neanderthals in Italy were crossing the Alps, it's likely they took refuge in high-altitude bear caves. A new study of ...

California's most devastating wildfire—the 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 and destroyed nearly 19,000 structures—forced ...

Oregon was the top state Americans moved to in 2025, according to a new study by federally licensed mover United Van Lines, while neighboring California continued to see more residents pack up and ...

Wildebeest migration has shrunk by 90% in Kenya's Maasai Mara due to fences being built, reveals new research. The annual spectacle - a magnet for eco tourists - has seen a "dramatic" decline over the ...

New maps reveal the impact of land use on the white-bearded wildebeest migration in Kenya. After tracking the movements of these wildebeests, researchers are concerned that conservationists can't keep ...

A newly dated cave painting in Indonesia may be the world’s oldest artwork, and it could rewrite the story of early human imagination.