The 2-million-year-old partial skeleton may even represent the oldest example of H. habilis discovered so far. It includes a ...

A skull discovered in Petralona Cave, Greece, has been used by some sources to claim that humans evolved independently in ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape ...

Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk.

An international team of researchers, with the involvement of the UAB, has conducted a study that explains the evolutionary ...

The 9,500-year-old remains of a woman in Malawi have set a new record, marking Africa's oldest evidence of intentional ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...