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

Chimpanzee calls activate key human brain voice regions, revealing ancient neural links that may reshape our understanding of language origins.

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

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

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

An increasing number of people are suffering from gastrointestinal disorders (GIDs) due to unhealthy diet habits and the stress of the fast pace of modern life. Most of these people will be ...

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

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

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

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