Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

Learn how a major shift toward drought reshaped the Flores ecosystem and may have driven the hobbits to extinction.

Compared with modern humans (Homo sapiens), who have been around for the past 300,000 years, Homo erectus, or "upright human," had a long reign. The ancient human species lived from 2 million years ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...

More and more discoveries are revealing the creative capacities and impressive intelligence of archaic human ancestors, who were not the unthinking brutes they were once portrayed as being. The latest ...

An international study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the French National Center for Scientific Research provides the first scientific evidence that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had ...

A groundbreaking study of a child’s skull found in a northern Israeli cave has found that the world’s first incidence of sex between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals took place at least 100,000 years ...

Early humans began eating grassy plants, especially grains and underground starchy tissues, before their teeth were fully adapted to chew them efficiently. A Dartmouth-led study, published in Science, ...

Long before they had the teeth for it, early humans were already eating tough plants – grasses and underground starches. That’s the big takeaway from a new study led by scientists at Dartmouth College ...

Once, Earth was home to diverse human species, not just Homo sapiens. Fossil evidence reveals at least 21 early human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, coexisted and even interbred with ...