Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

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

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful of teeth found at the Ledi-Geraru site in Ethiopia suggest that diverse ...

As more people turn to donor sperm to grow their families, a new sperm bank is challenging outdated norms.

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

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A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

Lost cities, missing tombs, and unexplained occurrences. History still holds unanswered questions for these seven events.

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Today, sequencing machines can decode up to a hundred million times more DNA than their early predecessors. Where the first ...