Many species of animals go through mass migrations, but there’s likely no species on Earth that has migrated to more ...

Recent discoveries have elicited a remarkable refinement in the way evidence has been viewed regarding neanderthals, ancient relatives associated with the modern man who became extinct some 40,000 ...

A man is taken away by police officers during a demonstration by right-wing groups in Magdeburg, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP) ...

As a kid, it was tough for me to grasp the massive time scale of Earth's history. Now, with nearly two decades of experience ...

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43,119 years ago: The Neanderthals go extinct ... This is the peak of the most recent ice age, affecting both ecosystems and human migration. ~17,275 years ago: Warming begins after the Last Glacial ...

Neanderthals, formally called Homo neanderthalensis, were more robustly built than Homo sapiens and had larger brows. They lived from around 430,000 years ago until their disappearance relatively ...

Dec. 4, 2024 — A new study sheds light on how long humans in the Americas have had relationships with the ancestors of today's dogs -- and asks an 'existential ... Nov. 25, 2024 — Armenians, a ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 ...