How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

Scientists found honey bee genes tied to social behavior that resemble human ones, suggesting ancient shared roots.

A groundbreaking discovery on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi reveals that early hominins crossed treacherous seas over a ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

An ASU research team has discovered 13 ancient human teeth in Ethiopia, dating back to 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago, that ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

A mysterious skull, discovered in a Greek cave decades ago, has been identified as belonging to Homo heidelbergensis, an ...

Long before modern humans appeared in Africa about 300,000 years ago, our ancestors faced a crisis that almost ended the ...

A handful of teeth unearthed in Ethiopia has led to the discovery of a new species of human ancestor.The finding, announced ...