Neanderthals and Homo sapiens repeatedly interbred, shared genes, and merged populations over the course of nearly 250,000 years. With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), this intermingling of ...

A groundbreaking new documentary series titled Human is set to bring the ancient past of our evolutionary relatives to life ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only existing members of the human family tree. However, our evolutionary journey began around 6 million years ago and gave rise to at least 18 species, ...

Scientists made a surprising discovery when studying fossils of a distant human relative – Paranthropus robustus ...