Two new hominin track sites discovered on Portugal beaches change how we view Neanderthals’ relationship with coastlines.

In 1989, archaeologists excavated Cova Negra cave in Spain and found the skull fragment of a 6-year-old Neanderthal. CT scans revealed inner ear malformations consistent with Down syndrome. Her ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

In her new show, Ella Al-Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...

Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkey and ...

An ancient skull found in China has pushed back the timeline of human evolution by 400,000 years, revealing a new branch in our lineage.

A new find in the Ayvalık region of western Turkey suggests that prehistoric humans somehow "walked" across what is now a deep body of water.

The team at Lux Aeterna explain how partnering with photogrammetry specialists Sample & Hold enabled the recreation of ...

The theory was that Anatolia, the region in which Ayvalık is situated, and Europe were linked during the last Ice Age, ...

A research team led by archaeologist Pedro Cantalejo has spent the past ten months analysing 144 walls inside the cave system ...