A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

Discovered approximately 90 years ago, the fossil was reanalyzed using advanced micro-CT scanning and 3D modeling. A ...

Tel Aviv, Israel — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according ...

Scientists have uncovered the world’s earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old ...

Around 140,000 years ago, a Neanderthal and a modern human got it on. We know nothing about the situation that led to this ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...

Homo erectus has been credited with the longest reign of any of the species in the Homo genus, it is actually quite insane ...