When you imagine the evolution of homosapien it’s easy to imagine our great ape ancestors turning into upright versions and ...

The residents of the Moroccan site weren’t quite the Homo sapiens of today; their skulls were less rounded and more elongated than ours, perhaps signaling differences between our brains and theirs.

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

Humans first arrived in South America through a series of extraordinary migrations – and genetic studies now reveal more ...

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

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

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

Archaeologists have spent 60 years trying to figure out the origin story of a 300,000-year-old skull, and it seems a team of ...