Neanderthals weren’t brutish cavemen—they were skilled, social, and deeply human. This documentary explores how they lived, ...

A new study finds tiny Neanderthal DNA differences shaped their powerful jaws, revealing how small genetic changes influence ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

A major archaeological discovery in Suffolk shows that early Neanderthals were making fire about 400,000 years ago, pushing ...

Evidence from eastern England suggests ancient humans may have mastered fire 400,000 years ago, far earlier than believed, ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...