New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Another twist has been added to the puzzling mix that is early human ancestry with evidence that one of the most complete pre ...

Residents of a San Diego home return after FBI finds human remains. What we know about the former tenant named as a person of ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...