The Algarve coast now offers one of the clearest windows into Neanderthal life on the Iberian Peninsula. Two new hominin track sites discovered on Portugal beaches change how we view Neanderthals’ ...

Learn about the first Neanderthal tracksites found in the Iberian Peninsula, featuring footprints from adults, adolescents, and children.

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

In 1989, archaeologists excavated Cova Negra cave in Spain and found the skull fragment of a 6-year-old Neanderthal. CT scans revealed inner ear malformations consistent with Down syndrome. Her ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to global hegemony.

Google Maps suffered an outage that left the mobile version of the service unable to fully load its map or provide directions. Over 4,000 reports were filed on Downdetector since the outage started, ...

In a rare outage, Google Maps is down and will not load as of 1 p.m. PT on Thursday. This is impacting the Android and iOS apps. The map layer itself — regardless of location — is not properly loading ...

Conservative political activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk was fatally shot Wednesday while speaking on the Utah Valley University campus. The event was the first stop on Kirk's ...

Democracy is deteriorating in much of the world and changes in the United States under President Donald Trump threaten to accelerate the decline, according to a pro-democracy institute that has the ...

Nearly 300,000 years ago, Neanderthals had already figured out how to hunt mountain goats along vertical cliffs and process them in well-organised camps. Known for ambushing large animals in Western ...

The 2025 leaf peeping season is getting underway with some parts of the U.S. already starting to see fall foliage. But peak colors are still to come. Using a data model that factors in historical and ...

The brain holds space for a missing limb, even years after it’s gone. For three women who underwent planned hand amputations, brain scans revealed remarkably durable maps of hand areas, lasting for ...