A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

The story of how Earth’s magnetic field once collapsed, solar radiation went wild, and humans adapted with prehistoric ...

Recent discoveries provide new insights into why Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Specifically, a study ...

Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar.

An international team of scientists has found a bone spear tip dating back between 80,000 and 70,000 years in the Mezmaiskaya cave, in the North Caucasus (Russia). What’s extraordinary about the ...

Some movies are so original, so confidently humming along on their own peculiar wavelength, that watching them becomes a test of a viewer’s taste for the unique. You have to meet such a movie’s ...

A surprising archaeological discovery in southwest China is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about ancient humans ...

A group of researchers from Australia studied crystal formation on the surface of Mars to determine how the Martian environment evolved. What they found is multiple layers of these crystal structures ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now ...

Even under today's climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the ...