A fossil discovery near Pampore, Kashmir, sheds light on the interaction between ancient humans and the environment of the ...

An analysis of a 1.5 million-year-old vertebra from a human relative living in what is now Israel suggests that ancient humans dispersed out of Africa is multiple waves.

Chris Stringer places Homo longi with previously known ancient humans, the Neanderthals and Denisovans, and our own species, ...

Opals, ancient humans and sharks dating back 465 million years. This week we see how today’s world has been shaped from the distant past.

The Giants Drew A Mural Long Ago About The Wars That Destroyed The World ...

A study suggests long scalp hair evolved as an adaptation to heat and later gained cultural significance. Researchers identified a dormant molecular program that could lead to improved therapies for ...

Summary: Humans have vestigial ear muscles that once helped our ancestors focus on sounds. New research shows these muscles still activate when we strain to hear in noisy environments. Scientists used ...

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity. Geoscientists conducted ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Do your ears hang low, do they wiggle to and fro? In the latter case, that’s thanks to a so-called “neural fossil”.

Sheep shaped human history for 12,000 years. Scientists traced their migration, domestication, and genetic evolution.

A Reddit user believes they’ve found a face peering back at them in a Google Earth image from Antarctica. The satellite ...