NEW YORK (AP) — An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands of...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving...

Researchers found two new mutations in ancient proteins from 400,000-year-old teeth....

A new scientific study is quietly changing the way researchers understand human evolution. It focuses on something surprisingly small: ancient tooth...

BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Proteins extracted from six teeth of early humans residing in what is now China around 400,000 years ago provide new...

Ancient Neanderthals practiced sophisticated dental care, performing effective procedures around 60,000 years ago. Archaeological findings reveal a...

Remarkable fossilized footprints discovered in New Mexico's White Sands National Park have pushed back human presence in North America by thousands of...

Remarkable fossilized footprints discovered in New Mexico's White Sands National Park have pushed back human presence in North America by thousands of...

Archaeologists in Russia have uncovered a rare Alan harness plate made from a gold-silver alloy inside an ancient Caucasus burial mound. The artifact...

, CC BY-SA Imagine being tasked with counting every blade of grass in a field, noting every single species as you go. This is not far from the...