The rare artifacts reveal secrets of early Neolithic farming and daily life. New evidence uncovered at a dig site in Huesca, ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Dec. 23 has been deemed Festivus after it was written into 'Seinfeld' nearly 20 years ago. That episode's writer tells The ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

International Human Solidarity Day is celebrated annually on 20 December to mark the core value of solidarity in ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Long views of humanity take shape through books that trace belief, power and survival across eras, offering context to how ...