A University of Kansas researcher has spent years studying "aquaterra"—his term for regions around the world once populated by ancient humans that today are submerged under water due to sea-level ...

New research shows Mara-Loita white-bearded wildebeest populations have lost roughly 90% of their historic migratory footprint since 2020 due to the construction of fencing and other man-made barriers ...

An ambitious project to map the migration of humans across the globe using genetic information was launched by the US National Geographic Society and IBM on Wednesday. The Genographic Project aims to ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Dec. 18, 2025 — Dr. Elie Gurarie from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) partnered with the Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration to produce new maps ...

No longer can the tale of one single human migration out of Africa 60,000 years ago be considered an accurate history of humankind, said a review of scientific literature Thursday. Rather, multiple ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For decades, a theory based on the dating of organic matter (sampled from the Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile) dated the oldest American ...

Coastal food resources gave some groups of people an advantage over others. Illustration by Maggie Lambert-Newman, courtesy of Grootbos Private Nature Reserve, Author provided (no reuse) As a group of ...

The original evolution of hominins (modern humans and their evolutionary ancestors since the split with other great apes) took place in Africa about 7 million years ago, based on the fossil record.

Migration debates often begin in the wrong place. They ask how many migrants a country should accept, which migrants should be prioritised and how quickly they should arrive. These are important ...

Just north of the great Serengeti wildebeest migration, a smaller migration across the Mara ecosystem is collapsing. New maps published in the Atlas of Ungulate Migration reveal the dramatic impact of ...