People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

Our ancient ancestors died out thousands of years ago, leaving behind nothing but fossils, a few scattered artefacts, and lingering traces in our DNA. For the last 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been ...

The boomerang, found in a cave in southern Poland, may be the oldest in the world, dating back 40,000 years, according to researchers.

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Scarlett Johansson leads a crew of explorers into uncharted territory — and very familiar blockbuster terrain — in yet ...

(CN) — A boomerang made from a mammoth’s tusk pulled from a Polish cave could be one of the oldest known examples of a ...

A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain—have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of our ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

The ancient boomerang wasn't found alone; it lay alongside a human phalanx—a small bone from either a finger or a toe.