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Long before modern breeds like huskies, pugs or German shepherds existed, dogs were already journeying across continents with groups of humans. New research published in Science shows that dogs were ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

New research confirms humans first reached the Sahul super-continent by two different routes around 60,000 years ago.

Researchers in Japan discovered a pottery vessel over 10,000 years old in Lake Biwako, the oldest artifact found at the ...

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the ...

The first kiss in history probably took place over 16.9 million years ago — long before humans even existed, a new study suggests.

Lake Banook in Dartmouth has hosted plenty of international and national competitions over the decades — and two more are ...

A new study published in Nature reveals that a distinct group of early humans lived in this region for at least 8,000 years, ...

At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...

“This caught our attention because there is no evidence in the archaeological record that wolves ever lived on these islands, ...