Across a wind-swept basin in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert, a now-vanished lake once attracted wildlife during a brief climatic ...

Eighty-five fossilized human footprints discovered on a beach in northern Morocco have been dated to around 90,000 years ago.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Fossilized footprints of Homo heidelbergensis located in Lower Saxony represent the oldest known footprints in Germany. The 300,000-year-old site ...

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.

Before inventing wheels, humans dragged large burdens on an X-shaped structure of wooden poles called a travois. Archeologists working at White Sands National Park in New Mexico may have uncovered ...