A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

We all know that Neanderthals and Modern Humans are closest related to each other when it comes to different species in the ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

How did early humans evolve and thrive? In this video, we explore the Pleistocene era and uncover how early Homo sapiens became Earth's dominant species. Russian American ballerina Ksenia Karelina ...

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Findings, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, show that different hominin groups, including Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like populations, weren't just existing in parallel.

New research is shedding light on the lives of these ancient humans. Around 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens made its main migration out of Africa. But what happened to the people who stayed behind? New ...

The first Homo sapien outside Africa was discovered in a Greek cave. Public Domain/University of Tübingen A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of ...

Homo naledi, an extinct relative of modern humans whose brain was one-third the size of ours, buried their dead and engraved cave walls about 250,000 years ago, according to new research.