Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a ...

At Rome’s Casal Lumbroso site, humans 400,000 years ago turned a dead elephant into food and tools—proof of astonishing ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would have dried out and preserved the bodies.

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

The study estimates that the longi clade split from the line that would eventually give rise to modern humans around 1.32 million years ago. That would make Yunxian 2 one of the group’s oldest known ...