A major volcanic cataclysm may have been ultimately responsible for the spread of the Black Death across Europe in the 1340s.

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.

Back in 2003, scientists made an astonishing discovery in a cave on a remote Indonesian island: tiny human skeletons that ...