Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

Indonesia's ancient "hobbits" may have endured not as daring hunters but as scavengers that capitalized on whatever food they ...

This video traces the long evolutionary path from the first primates about 85 million years ago to modern Homo sapiens.

Scientists propose that recently uncovered fossils may be the earliest evidence of behavioral “handedness” in animals.

Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious reasons), shared the island of Flores with Komodo dragons, pygmy elephants, ...

Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted ...

The excavation of a cave in southern Türkiye revealed evidence of shared technologies, survival strategies, and even symbolic ...

Photo: Katerina Harvati Replicas of a Homo habilis skull (right) and an early Homo sapiens skull (left), illustrating two key ...

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

An entire ancient human species, Homo naledi, is known from specimens found at just one site in South Africa, back in 2013. At first, 15 individuals were found inside the Rising Star cave system. Now, ...