New research suggests Neanderthals didn't face a sudden extinction but were gradually absorbed into the growing human ...

Humans weren’t just along for the ride in prehistoric Europe – they were already changing the world around them. Long before farming or permanent villages, small groups of hunter-gatherers were ...

Two small genetic changes reshaped the human pelvis, setting our early ancestors on the path to upright walking, scientists say. One genetic change flipped the ilium — the bone your hands rest on when ...

Megan Malherbe is affiliated with the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, and the Human Evolution Research Institute at the University of Cape Town. Understanding what the ...

Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ancestors lived and survived. Habitat shapes everything, from what food was ...

The story begins in China, almost a million years ago, when a human-like skull, now called Yunxian 2, became buried in river soil. When scientists first uncovered it, some decades ago, excitement ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Researchers have created human embryos by taking nuclei from ordinary skin cells, placing them into donated eggs, and fertilizing them with sperm. The work is a laboratory ...

Ancient human fossils found in a cave in northern Laos are revealing to scientists that early modern humans were quite physically diverse, and they reveal an earlier migration timeline in Southeast ...

Revolutionary artificial intelligence analysis of ancient fossils has overturned long-standing assumptions about when humans first rose from prey to predator. Groundbreaking research led by Rice ...

At the Cerutti Mastodon site in California, researchers found broken mastodon bones and stone cobbles dated to 130,000 years ago—suggesting human activity far earlier than accepted timelines. Critics ...

The excavation found remains of the first Paleolithic period, tools, and fragments from 200 and 300 thousand years ago. Credit: Ilias Markou/AMNA Archaeologists have completed a highly successful ...