The history of whale hunting is much older—and more global—than researchers once believed. A new study shows that Indigenous communities living...

A fossil discovery in northern Ethiopia expands the known range of Paranthropus, a genus of strong-jawed hominins that lived around 2 million years...

A fossil discovery in northern Ethiopia expands the known range of Paranthropus, a genus of strong-jawed hominins that lived around 2 million years...

Sensitive hearing may have evolved in mammal ancestors far earlier than...

Sensitive hearing may have evolved in mammal ancestors far earlier than...

A faded outline of a human hand on a cave wall in Indonesia could now be the world’s oldest known rock art, according to archaeologists who say it...

A faded outline of a human hand on a cave wall in Indonesia could now be the world’s oldest known rock art, according to archaeologists who say it...

A prehistoric hand stencil found in a cave on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has been identified as the world’s oldest rock art, shifting the...

A prehistoric hand stencil found in a cave on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has been identified as the world’s oldest rock art, shifting the...

Indigenous communities in southern Brazil hunted large cetaceans 5,000 years ago. Credit: Patricia del Amo Martín / ICTA-UAB / Public domain The...