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

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains. This carnivorous origin story has become so entrenched that few questioned it: our ...

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

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

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

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

After discovering fossilized facial bones in Spain, researchers now say they've found the oldest face of Western Europe. In ...

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

New fossil evidence from a Spanish cave suggests an unknown prehistoric human population once lived in Europe.

The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.