The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

Avengers: Doomsday will have X-Men but we still need many to fight Dr. Victor von Doom. Here's list of fox-verse heroes who ...

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient human relative who lived alongside the species of the famous Lucy, scientists ...

It’s 11 a.m. on a Monday and I’m in my underwear, standing inside a sci-fi-like version of an airport security scanner. This is my first body scan. I’m about to have my insides documented in a process ...