Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

Ice Age humans crafted extraordinary shelters from mammoth bones, showcasing a remarkable blend of survival instincts and ...

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

What did that feel like for him?” Boddice asked. I stared for a few seconds while Boddice smiled encouragingly, as if he’d ...

A new ancient DNA study argues that the familiar house cat is a relative latecomer, carried from North Africa into Europe ...

A research team led by Professor Luo Shujin from the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a surprising chapter in the ...

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.