A little over 100,000 years ago, groups of prehistoric humans in the Levant suddenly began burying their dead, marking one of ...

Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to ...

For the last 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species walking the Earth but what would cavemen like Neanderthals and Denisovans look like today if they had survived. DailyMail.com ...

The fingerprint, discovered on a painted pebble in a Spanish cave, represents the oldest known evidence of Neanderthal ...

The CENIEH is leading a comparative study that documents mixed patterns of tooth enamel in two fossil populations from the ...

Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

Europe’s earliest known boomerang, carved from mammoth tusk and over 40,000 years old, reveals advanced skills of early Homo ...

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...

Around 900,000 years ago, the global population reached a precarious low of only 1280 reproducing individuals and stayed like ...

Hidden for 80+ years, the Harbin skull has finally been identified as Denisovan using DNA and protein analysis.

DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied ...