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

New Israeli research suggests large game was smoked as early as 1.8 million years ago, a survival strategy that may have ...

The internal structures of Maba 1 show a combination of morphological features found in various species,” scientists stated ...

Early humans first used fire to preserve meat from predators and spoilage, rather than for cooking, new research shows.

Learn more about the ancient footprints found in Greece, which could upend theories on hominin emigration from Africa.

Thanks to a study that analyzed fossilized fragments of baby jaws dating back two million years, scientists are rewriting the ...

Homo floresiensis in the context of the evolution and dispersal of the genus Homo. Could LB1 be a pygmy H. sapiens? Again, no. Compared with a human skull scaled to less than a third of full size ...

To get a sense of when this diversity cropped up during human evolution, the researchers also compared the DNA of modern humans to that of a Neanderthal individual and of a Denisovan, another ...

Europe's Forest Plants Thrive Best in Light-Rich, Semi-Open Woodlands -- Kept Open by Large Herbivores May 14, 2025 — Before Homo sapiens ... for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa ...

May 28, 2025 — A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested ...