Opinion: "Let’s pause, regroup and ask if the mainstream media and brands, have our best interests at heart," says Sweeney ...

Archaeologists are pushing the origins of art far deeper into prehistory than anyone expected, revealing painted symbols and ...

Lead is synonymous with industrial pollution and modern toxicity. Yet this heavy metal has haunted humanity for nearly two million years. According to a new study, this ancient exposure may have ...

The lingering question of why modern humans took considerable time to migrate from Africa finds new dimensions in recent discoveries. Contrary to the conventional narrative, the roots of our species ...

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient. When reconstructed, the more ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. BBC’s five-part series “Human” premieres Wednesday as part of the PBS series “Nova,” following paleoanthropologist ...

Neanderthals are an extinct species of ancient humans who lived 430,000 to 40,000 years ago, while homo sapiens are modern humans. For a long time, many people believed that we evolved from ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

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 ...

Research team: “This discovery reveals the world’s earliest known human fossil showing morphological traits of both of these human groups, which until recently were considered two separate human ...

Leading Spanish sales agent Latido Films has picked up Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat’s riotous anthology comedy “Homo Sapiens?” (“Homo Argentum”) ahead of its wide release in Argentina. The film ...

From a young age, the inevitability and finality of death becomes a shaping force in our lives. Indeed, it could be said that our ability to recognise our eventual demise and the grief that comes with ...