This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

Scientists Discover Remains of a Baby With a Nearly Complete Skull, It's 150,000 Years Older Than the Lucy Specimen ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big ...

These are the earliest fossils found in East Asia in terms of the evolutionary process towards Homo sapiens. "The food scraps of ancient people at Hualongdong site might have lured rats and those ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

Scientists have reconstructed the face of a long-lost human ancestor that may have played a critical role in our evolution.

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Archaeologists have discovered that a skull that was believed to belong to ... Although no grave goods or inscriptions were found, researchers concluded that the burial belonged to a significant ...

A MUM has been trapped in bed with a condition that means her skull isn't securely attached to her spine for almost eight years. Amy Ironside Wood, 38, first fell ill in 2017 after her daughter ...

Chinese scientists have found the fossilised remains of what could be the smallest cat ever discovered – in the same cave where a family of 20 people lived around 30,000 years ago. The lower jaw ...