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.

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

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 ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

He reckons his latest game, The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy might indeed be the last defense against the rising tide of machine-based creations. "At this rate, Hundred Line might truly become ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

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