Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

Learn more about Homo affinis erectus, Western Europe’s oldest human ancestor.

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

A group of scientists have discovered the jaw bone of an ancient human species that lived about 1.4 million years ago. The ...

The bone remains, including parts of the left cheek and upper jaw, belong to an extinct human species that lived between 1.1 ...

A groundbreaking discovery in the Sima del Elefante cave, located in the Atapuerca mountains of Spain, is changing what we ...

A Texas bill would ban students from dressing or acting like animals in school, including wearing tails, using litter boxes, ...