In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

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 ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

Every nation needs a story. Most nations are accidents of history: different groups of people thrown together by circumstance. Occupying the same territory, their lives and futures are linked. Foun ...

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 ...