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

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

Stand in front of a mirror and look at the very bottom of your face. That modest forward bump beneath your lower lip — the ...

A new study has uncovered an unexpected food source in the Neanderthal diet that could rewrite how we understand their ...

Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex ...

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

The identity of the cannibals remains unknown, but scientists say it may have been early Homo sapiens preying on rival ...

Early humans may have feasted on Neanderthal children 45,000 years ago, according to a grisly new study. Researchers have ...

The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...

Homo sapiens was basically infected by these viruses for all of its existence," the scientist added. As per the outlet, ...

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.