A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds.

A huge study of ancient DNA reveals the origins of the Yamna, who spread across Eurasia around 5000 years ago, showing they ...

This TikTok account has answered questions about humans' existence and how we spread worldwide in just one minute - and ...

From stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that ...

The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...

Step back in time, folks, and imagine a world of primitive cave dwellers, clad in animal skins, and struggling to … Continue ...

Scientists uncovered how ancient blood groups helped Homo sapiens as compared to Neanderthals in their survival and spread ...

A team of paleoanthropologists and geneticists from Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES has found evidence of what may have been a contributing factor to the decline of Neanderthals. In their paper ...

Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

An extremely large brain that’s bigger than that of our species, Homo sapiens, the only surviving hominin ... between more ...

A detailed analysis of these remnants was used to recreate the climate and activity of a direct ancestor of modern humans, ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...