Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Fossils found in Georgia challenge existing theories of human origins, suggesting two early human species coexisted at the Dmanisi site.

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyse the morphology of bones — which is crucial for ...

As Neanderthals had dominated Europe for hundreds of thousands of years, the arrival of Homo sapiens 45,000 years ago marked the beginning of their sudden disappearance. The causes of this extinction ...

Homo Neanderthalensis lived 400,000 to 40,000 years ago. It inhabited most of Europe and southwestern to central Asia and lived in higher altitude climates. They were closely related to humans, ...

Modern humans, Homo sapiens, are now the only surviving member of the Homo genus. It is almost inconceivable to us that we walked alongside other human species, but as the science of archaeology has ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...