Exciting new research reveals a fascinating connection between the ancient Dragon Man skull, unearthed in China, and the ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

A little over 100,000 years ago, groups of prehistoric humans in the Levant suddenly began burying their dead, marking one of ...

The author of “Sapiens” says that for the first time in tens of thousands of years, humanity has competition. And it’s coming ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

The work explores how AI can become an ally of humans, enhancing rather than replacing their cognitive, creative, and design ...

Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...

Fire is an ancient natural phenomenon that has shaped our planet for more than 400 million years. It alters habitats, affects ...