After more than 13 years of impactful teaching and research at the University of Nevada, Reno, Professor Chris Morgan, a widely respected anthropologist and archaeologist, is setting off on a ...

Caves are nature's ancient wonders. They've been around for millions of years. Some caves were formed over 100 million years ago through the combined effects of water erosion, volcanic activity, and ...

The arid deserts of north Arabian Arabia do not seem to be the kind of climate early humans would have loved, but new finds are rewriting that hypothesis. Archaeologists have found life-size camel, ...

Our ancient past isn't always buried history. When it comes to our DNA, nearly 9% of the human genome is made up of leftover genetic material from ancient viruses (called endogenous retroviruses or ...

The human race is even older than we thought, and a new discovery has changed everything we thought we knew about our species’ earliest days walking on Earth. A major discovery analysed in a new paper ...

At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is the largest and most intact stegosaurus fossil ever unearthed. In July 2024, ...

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient.

Around 12,000 years ago, humans resettled the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula as rising humidity reshaped the harsh landscape, leaving behind camel engravings carved into sandstone cliffs as proof, ...

The UEFA Women's Champions League is about to begin its league phase. Here's every 2025-26 jersey of every team in the competition -- ranked!

Tucked into southeastern Ohio’s rolling landscape, Hocking Hills isn’t playing by the Midwest’s usual rulebook of gentle farmland and subtle beauty – it’s showing off with sandstone cliffs, mysterious ...

Learn more about the carvings of camels, gazelles, and ibexes that helped humans thrive in the Nefud Desert around 2,000 years earlier than traditionally thought.

On towering rock panels, artists inscribed artworks of camels, ibex, gazelles and more, risking their lives to create 'billboards' that signalled the presence of people and water bodies.