Fossilized human footprints in the Arabian Peninsula are forcing researchers to redraw the map of our species’ early journeys. Imprinted in what was once a lakeshore and is now desert, these tracks ...

Footage shows how researchers discovers fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico.

For years, the Turkana Boy has placed Kenya on the world map as a key site in the story of human evolution. Now, there is even more evidence supporting Kenya as a cradle of humankind. The recent ...

A new app, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), could help scientists and the public identify dinosaur footprints made millions of years ago, a study reveals. For decades, paleontologists have ...

Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say. The seven footprints, found amidst a clutter of hundreds of prehistoric ...