A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

When the bones were first excavated from Skhul Cave in northern Israel in 1931, archaeologists recognized that the child ...

An extinct group of humans that were once widespread in Asia don’t have an official species name – part of the reason is ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient humans undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of miles of ice over the Bering ...

Seven newly discovered stone tools, dating to between 1.04 and 1.48 million years ago, were found on the Indonesian island of ...

The Indonesian island of Sulawesi was a likely stepping stone for ancient hominins to reach nearby Flores, the home of the ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Archaeologists discovered stone tools at least a million years old on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, but exactly who made ...

By Stephen Beech Man's ancestors transported stones over long distances to craft tools 2.6 million years ago - 600,000 years ...