For decades, we were taught a tidy version of human evolution: one species handing the baton to the next, in a neat ...

A child's skull from 140,000 years ago has unlocked a surprising connection between Neanderthals and homo-sapiens.

Countless species lived and vanished before Homo sapiens appeared. From colossal predators to strange giants, these are the ...

The skeleton of a five-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago, and which has characteristics of both species, was found in a prehistoric cave in northern Israel.The post Earliest evidence ...

Ethiopian fossils uncover new species in human lineage as researchers discover Australopithecus teeth coexisting with early ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

The find suggests that as many as four different hominin lineages lived in eastern Africa between 2.5 and 3 million years ago ...

Shamahi, host of NOVA's ambitious five-part series, Human, which captures Homo Sapiens' 300,000 year journey from underdog to ...

It was the telegram exchange that sparked an identity crisis for humankind. In 1960 a young Jane Goodall working in a remote ...

From Ethiopia comes an incredible discovery—early humans seem to have potentially lived alongside the very apes they evolved ...

Archaeologists in Poland have uncovered a 70,000-year-old Neanderthal workshop, revealing groundbreaking insights into their ...

Arizona State University researchers unearthed fossils in Ethiopia that may have belonged to a previously undiscovered ...