Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced ...

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating back 773,000 years, discovered in Morocco, provide insight into early human evolution.

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful of teeth found at the Ledi-Geraru site in Ethiopia suggest that diverse ...

Morocco has previously yielded some of the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils. Remains dating to about 315,000 years ago ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Fossils discovered in a quarry cave in Morocco and dated to roughly 773,000 years ago are offering scientists a rare glimpse ...

HUBEI, China (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought. A badly crushed ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene called MUC19, inherited from Denisovans through ancient interbreeding, may have played a vital role in helping Indigenous ancestors adapt as they migrated into ...

UC San Diego researchers have found high levels of lead in the teeth of both Neanderthals (left) and modern humans (right). However, a gene mutation may have protected modern human brains, allowing ...