For thousands of years, Europeans had dark skin. New DNA reveals that pale skin only became common in Europe just 3,000 years ...

The textbook assumption is that when the first modern humans arrived in Europe, around 45,000 years ago, they quickly evolved ...

In the river terraces of central China’s Hubei Province, a fossilized skull once dismissed as too crushed for meaningful ...

Philosophically, academics and global media have to do better to explain why Home sapiens, a sentient and potentially sapient species, has started the Sixth Extinction.

An exceptionally preserved Neanderthal skull suggests that their nasal passages were not specialized cold weather equipment.

Human remains found inside a Belgian cave tell a grisly story of selective cannibalism among our hominid cousins.

A new study analyzes the nasal cavity of the "Altamura Man," a Neanderthal who died between 130,000 and 172,000 years ago ...

Engineers, like evolution, are tinkerers. Few vehicles showcase how one car can spread into multiple roles quite like ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Researchers uncovered bones inside Wallonia's Goyet Caves that reveal a brutal cannibal attack that took place 45,000 years ...