Sables are luxurious little animals. These fur-bearing mammals, native to the forests of Eurasia, have sandy yellow, light brown, dark brown and black coats, which are valuable commodities in the fur ...

Sheep have been part of human life for over 11,000 years. First domesticated in the western Fertile Crescent, their impact ...

The skeletons of at least 13 mammoths were discovered at the site, dating to a period researchers consider the “peak” age of mammoth hunting, according to the post. “This wa ...

Prior to this discovery, the site of Dmanisi in the country of Georgia was thought to contain the oldest evidence of hominin ...

Baboons are the members of the genus Papio, found all over sub-Saharan Africa and parts of the Arabian Peninsula. These ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Though measuring animal intelligence is tricky, some animals show remarkable cognitive abilities that may rival our own.

New fossil evidence from Romania suggests hominins reached Eurasia 200,000 years earlier than thought, reshaping human ...

Scientists uncovered evidence of the oldest hominin presence in Europe in modern-day Romania nearly two million years ago.

Learn about the archaeological discovery of the oldest European site occupied by ancient hominins, indicating their spread ...

I should mention that Guns, Germs and Steel is eminently readable — he's a terrific writer. I wholeheartedly recommend it for ...