From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Four lifelike reconstructions of prehistoric humans have been unveiled — including a model of a species often dubbed "the hobbit," which, as an adult, was about the same height as a modern 4-year-old.

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

A 146,000-year-old skull recovered near Harbin, China, by scientists decades ago has now been found to belong to the Denisovans, an extinct relation to modern humans who lived in Siberia and East Asia ...