Scientists discovered signs of interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens on a 140,000-year-old skull; 'This is the ...

Countless species lived and vanished before Homo sapiens appeared. From colossal predators to strange giants, these are the ...

The skeleton of a five-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago, and which has characteristics of both species, was found in a prehistoric cave in northern Israel.The post Earliest evidence ...

Ethiopian fossils uncover new species in human lineage as researchers discover Australopithecus teeth coexisting with early ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

The find suggests that as many as four different hominin lineages lived in eastern Africa between 2.5 and 3 million years ago ...

Shamahi, host of NOVA's ambitious five-part series, Human, which captures Homo Sapiens' 300,000 year journey from underdog to ...

It was the telegram exchange that sparked an identity crisis for humankind. In 1960 a young Jane Goodall working in a remote ...

From Ethiopia comes an incredible discovery—early humans seem to have potentially lived alongside the very apes they evolved ...

Arizona State University researchers unearthed fossils in Ethiopia that may have belonged to a previously undiscovered ...

This prehistoric species remained independent of the Neanderthal lineage in Europe, maintaining a close relationship with ...

A recent discovery of 2.6 million-year-old stone tools reveals that ancient human relatives were planning ahead and ...