The team’s method estimated that the life expectancy for Neanderthals was 37.8 years, and the same for another extinct member ...

Archaeologists have spent the past 60 years trying to understand where the skull fits in human evolution, and it seems there ...

Old Skull of ‘Maba’ Continues to Puzzle Scientists as It Does Not Match Any Human Species. Experts have been at work for ...

Long before highways and high-rises, Earth was home to some seriously massive, strange, and downright wild animals. These ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Researchers insert a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal variant of the GLI3 gene into mice, altering their bone structure without ...

Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

A new analysis of the ancient DNA of 42 people from Papua New Guinea reveals that some cultures were remarkably isolated for ...

This revealed a clear location where the two human species overlapped with each other and likely interbred: the Zagros ...

Fossils of early Homo sapiens from Herto, Ethiopia, show that populations living in Africa 160,000 years ago had already evolved brains broadly equivalent in size to those of humans living today.