An ASU research team has discovered 13 ancient human teeth in Ethiopia, dating back to 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago, that ...

A handful of teeth unearthed in Ethiopia has led to the discovery of a new species of human ancestor. The finding, announced ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

An extinct group of humans that were once widespread in Asia don’t have an official species name – part of the reason is ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

In a turn of events that has left the scientific community in a state of shock and intrigue, the oldest human remains ever discovered have been unearthed from the frosty expanses of Antarctica. This ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of them may be an unknown species.

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who ...

Every culture has an explanation about how we got here. The ancient Greeks were no different. The dramatic story of the origins of humanity in Greek mythology involves love, pain, and a hefty dose of ...

An ancient human sacrifice site found in Peru offers new insight into pre-Columbian rituals, architecture, and early ...

The ability to detect vocal sounds, and the more specialized skill of recognizing calls from one's own species, is supported ...