In this fascinating talk, paleoanthropologist Juliet Brophy explains the shocking discovery of nearly 1,800 fossils from a ...

The first installment of a gripping new trilogy blends high-concept science fiction with global conspiracy and ancient ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a ...

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to a new genetic ...

Humans were moving between Siberia and northern China far earlier than thought, according to a new study that offers a ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

This Ice Age pair of hunter-gatherers were both shorter than average for their population – one of them markedly so – and now we finally know why. A team of researchers from Europe re-examined the ...