When a stone sits on the Earth’s surface, cosmic rays quietly pepper it, leaving behind rare isotopes like tiny time stamps. Bury the stone deep enough, and that cosmic “printing press” shuts off.

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When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he ...

Ancient footprints challenge the timeline of human arrival in North America, suggesting people were here much earlier than once believed.

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...