Until recently, it was thought that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals split off from their last common ancestor around 600,000 ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

This week, some saucy leopard sharks have been caught having a “threesome” in a world-first sighting, NASA has proposed ...

The discovery of Yunxian 2 reveals early humans may have coexisted with Neanderthals for nearly 800,000 years, challenging ...

A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Learn more about the differences between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and how those differences may have helped our ...

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years, most large-brained humans can be traced to just five major branches: ...

The oldest workshop for making shell jewelry has been unearthed at the Paleolithic site of La Roche-à-Pierrot in ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.