Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

The fossilized remains of a newly discovered ancient shark species found in the depths of Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park reveal not the sharp, pointy gnashers you’d associate with Hollywood’s ...

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...

At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.

Scientists have unearthed facial bones that may belong to a previously unknown human species. The bones, nicknamed "Pink," ...

Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...

Facial remains found at an ancient cave in Spain belong to a primitive, archaic human who lived between 1.1 million to 1.4 ...

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...