Early humans named Homo erectus reached East Asia 600,000 years earlier than thought, reshaping the timeline of hominin migration.

Monte Verde, long treated as one of the earliest human camps in South America, is suddenly at the center of a sharp scientific split over the timeline. A new study in Science argues that the famed ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

Genetic tweaks changed how the hip bones of early humans developed, which allowed them to start walking upright on two legs, according to new research. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News Two small ...

Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

It’s unclear how a new date for the site might affect the human story. Since Monte Verde, researchers have uncovered sites in North America that predate the Clovis people, such as Cooper’s Ferry in ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical traces in fossil teeth. Experiments suggest this exposure may have driven ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal Nature, found that these tweaks changed ...