For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

What we eat helps shape who we are. That’s why paleoanthropologists are so fascinated by ancient diets; they hold clues to ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

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

Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known multifunctional tool made from cave lion bone, shedding new light on ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

The Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives, and they continue to fascinate as we peer back through tens of thousands ...

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy, was long believed to be absent from the Americas prior to European contact. A new ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...