Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a ...

Migration into England was continuous from the Romans through to the Normans and men and women moved from different places ...

By digging carefully, archaeologists can connect information from aDNA to information about the social lives of these people.

The international study, published in Science, analyzed 87 complete genomes from both ancient and modern felines to map how cats spread geographically over millennia. The earliest domestic cat DNA in ...

What is beneath the continent of Africa? There are two big structures down there that do not seem to be from our planet, Earth. Africa has a lot of th.

Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a beautifully preserved face of a 1.5-million-year-old human ancestor—the first complete Early Pleistocene hominin cranium from the Horn ...

New research has mapped 16 extensive, interlaced river systems on Mars, dating back approximately 3.7 billion years to the Early Hesperian Period. These large river systems, despite covering only ...

Benin City, in southern Nigeria, has risen from a history marked by conquest and loss to become a bustling urban center of more than 2 million residents. Once the heart of the powerful Kingdom of ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...

A new study explores how ancient southern African populations, isolated for nearly 100,000 years, developed distinct genetic traits. The study’s co-author, Mattias Jakobsson, a human evolutionary ...

Africa’s official maps are stuck in the past, often either outdated, incomplete—or both. But governments don’t have the budgets to fix them, making it difficult to complete projects as complex as ...