The Alabai is an ancient dog breed that has been a part of human history for thousands of years, and its impact on empires ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

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NOFX are about to get inside your head — all over again. The punk band have announced the release of a feature length documentary, titled 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up, that will detail their storied history ...

Homo heidelbergensis lived hundreds of thousands of years ago during a critical phase of human evolution. Fossil evidence places them across Africa and Europe. They displayed advanced hunting behavior ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

What made humans behave differently to their closest relatives? Researchers have long sought an answer in a handful of genetic differences between Homo sapiens and our close relatives the Neanderthals ...

During the Japanese invasion of northern China in 1933, a man was hired to build a bridge across the Songhua river near the city of Harbin. As he was digging, he found a large, ancient cranium ...

Six Eye Films, based out of West Palm Beach, produced the documentary Without Shade, Without Rest (2025) Credit: Six Eye Films A new documentary from the independent nonprofit Six Eye Films, Without ...

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This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...