A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.

Rather than a single ancestral line steadily evolving toward modern humans, the evidence points to an evolutionary “bush” of ...

Discover how recent findings challenge our understanding of human evolution! A remarkable 300,000-year-old fossil from ...

The discovery of fire was a major milestone in human evolution, giving our ancestors a way to stay warm, ward off predators, ...

For more than a century, human origins have been told as a story of expansion, migration, and survival. But deep in that story sits a long, quiet stretch when almost nothing seems to happen.

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human ...

Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today. By analyzing genomes from populations across the Pacific, researchers uncovered evidence that the ...

After investigating thousands of wrist bones, scientists suspect the last common ancestor species of humans and chimpanzees ...

In 2001, researchers unearthed a scattering of fossils beneath the windswept dunes of the Djurab Desert of northern Chad. The remains were later identified as belonging to an extinct species, ...

A newly identified crocodile species nicknamed “Lucy’s hunter” prowled Ethiopia’s rivers when Lucy’s species walked the Earth ...