A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...

A chamber sealed off from the world for roughly 40,000 years has been pried open on the edge of Europe, and with it a rare, ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

For years, researchers analyzing traumatic injuries found on Neanderthal fossils believed they had lived dangerous, violent lives. But a new study reveals that early modern humans and Neanderthals ...

In 1993, researchers exploring a cave in southern Italy found a sinkhole leading to a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel was a ...

Starting a fire led to advancements such as cooking, which unlocked nutrients that improved the size and cognition of the Neanderthal brain.

Did Neanderthals in Europe have funerary and death practices? The answer to this question in the context of the Iberian Peninsula has been elusive for some time, as there’s an absence of clear burial ...