Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery of 115,000-year-old human footprints in the Arabian Peninsula, specifically at Alathar Lake. This finding challenges previous assumptions that early ...

The footprints of a prehistoric family of Heidelberg people were recently uncovered in the Lower Saxony region of Germany. Made 300,000 years ago, the tracks were discovered in Schoningen alongside ...

Footprints dating back 800,000 years have been uncovered on a beach in Norfolk, England, offering one of the oldest direct records of early human presence in northern Europe. Discovered at Happisburgh ...

The Maasai are the current residents of Engare Sero, a region in Northern Tanzania. They've shifted from the nomadic lifestyle that prehistoric humans in the area had. (Tomas Adzke/Deposit Photos/) ...

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...

370-million-year-old tracks unearthed on West Campus spark a Duke paleontologist’s quest to uncover the fossil’s story In late March, Curt Farmer got a request to remove walkway stone near Bostock ...

A book celebrating a local south Cumbrian historian, Duane Farren, for his work discovering and monitoring prehistoric human and animal ...

Dinosaur footprints have always been mysterious, but a new AI app is cracking their secrets. DinoTracker analyzes photos of fossil tracks and predicts which dinosaur made them, with accuracy rivaling ...

For years, the Turkana Boy has placed Kenya on the world map as a key site in the story of human evolution. Now, there is even more evidence supporting Kenya as a cradle of humankind. The recent ...

The standout images are ships, some carved upright, others upside down, packed with small human figures whose heads are unusually clearly defined. Fjeld and his daughter also spotted the “sole of a ...