Currently, there are several hypotheses surrounding the disappearance of Neanderthals. While they all have at least some ...

The prehistoric Jomon people of Japan had "unexpectedly low" levels of DNA from the Denisovans, our mysterious human ...

The last known members of the Homo erectus species were killed in a "mass death" event between 117,000 and 108,000 ago, scientists have said. By re-analyzing remains first discovered almost a century ...

Always held in Venice, the Homo Faber Biennial is never one to miss. Though it only takes place every other year, the Homo ...

Reaction to the upcoming name change has been mixed, with fans noting that the Silurians themselves previously referred to ...

Researchers have recovered Homo erectus bones from the seafloor, which points to an unknown hominin population hunting on ...

A momentous discovery in South Africa could turn our understanding of human history on its head. A non-human creature dubbed Homo naledi was discovered nearly a decade ago — and researchers now ...

Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern ...

Homo ergaster evolved during an accelerated period of global cooling and drying that cleared more and more tropical rainforest from Africa and created a desert in the northern half of the continent.

If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognize them as being very different from you. You'd see a certain "human-ness" in the stance, and their size and shape might be similar ...