A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

Discovered approximately 90 years ago, the fossil was reanalyzed using advanced micro-CT scanning and 3D modeling. A ...

A recent discovery of a fossilized child skeleton, dating back 140,000 years, is challenging established beliefs about early ...

Tel Aviv, Israel — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according ...

Scientists have uncovered the world’s earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old ...

Homo erectus, emerging two million years ago, marked a key step in human evolution. This exploration examines their lifestyle ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

The find suggests that as many as four different hominin lineages lived in eastern Africa between 2.5 million and 3 million ...

Study applies new techniques to a fossilized child's skull found in northern Israeli cave, and finds physical characteristics of both types of humans ...