Discover the fascinating history of cat domestication and genetic analysis results, revealing how ancient Egyptians played a ...

Claudia Steffensen made a captivating discovery in the Italian Alps: a tropical ecosystem dating back 280 million years, made ...

O’Brien examined the fossil records of 18 animal species that lived in East Africa during the ice age between 115,000 and 11,700 years ago, becoming the first to demonstrate prehistoric ...

The oldest known cave painting in Africa (and perhaps the world) is a stunning 73,000-year-old cross-hatch pattern on a rock ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

Crossing the borders of Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe, land and water safaris follow the flow of the Zambezi to Lake ...

“These were Homo sapiens, modern humans, who probably left Africa ... region’s large animals became extinct – namely woolly mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses, which prehistoric humans in ...

In 1983 archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified ...

With their pristine fur and dark almond eyes, arctic foxes are possibly one of the most beautiful mammals to have lived in ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

The study was recently published in the Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society. “In Israel, we do not find such paintings because when Homo sapiens arrived [in the Levant from Africa], the large ...