Prior to the discovery of MoM z14, the galaxy holding the title of earliest and distant was JADES-GS-z14-0, which existed ...

Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed a 43,000-year-old pebble bearing a Neanderthal fingerprint, potentially the oldest ...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

BBC News reports that deeper analysis of the object revealed that the strange mark was actually a Neanderthal fingerprint, ...

Scientists in Spain found a 43,000-year-old fingerprint. It is on a stone with a red dot. The dot looks like a nose. This ...

Researchers compared the whole genome sequence of two genetically distinct lineages of bed bug, and their findings indicate bed bugs may well be the first true urban pest.

Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint.

When fossilized, the layered microbial structures are known as stromatolites. Some date as far back as 3.5 billion years ago, providing some of the earliest convincing traces of any kind of life ...

Reuters reported that the fossil is one of the best preserved and most complete of the 14 known fossils of the specimens identified since 1861. The first Archaeopteryx fossil, which showed reptile ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. One of the most vexing unsolved problems in human ...

Those also are older than the previous earliest-known evidence for reptiles - skeletal fossils from Canada of a lizard-like creature named Hylonomus dating to around 320 million years ago ...

An illustration shows a life reconstruction of a reptile that left footprints which fossilized in sandstone found on the banks of the Broken River, near the town of Barjarg in Victoria ...