This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

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

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

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Simulations suggest Neanderthals were on the brink of extinction by the time our ancestors arrived on the Iberian Peninsula.

Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

Evidence of a hearth dating to about 415,000 years ago Researchers think that Neanderthals were responsible Discovery made near the village of Barnham in Suffolk Dec 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

Dealing the fatal blow, when the creature emerged from the cave, was a Rhyl chimney sweep called Thomas Hughes. Having “slain ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic ...