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

The timing of the first human arrival in the Americas remains one of the most debated questions in archaeology. Evidence from ...

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

A WORLD-FAMOUS fossil nicknamed “Little Foot” may actually belong to a new humanlike species. The fossil was previously ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit” thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, after more ...

A major archaeological discovery in Suffolk shows that early Neanderthals were making fire about 400,000 years ago, pushing ...

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

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

According to groundbreaking findings from England, Neanderthals were sparking their own fires 400,000 years ago — hundreds of thousands of years earlier than many anthropologists previously believed.

Until now, the earliest clear evidence of humans creating fire dates to roughly 50,000 years ago. The new findings push that ...

An ancient human species, Homo floresiensis, once thrived on the Indonesian island of Flores, but their sudden disappearance ...