In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia ...

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

A newly published scientific study is reigniting debate over human evolution in Africa after researchers suggested that the ...

A remarkable fossil discovered in northern China suggests that multiple human species once shared the region around 150,000 ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

With rising effects of climate change across the globe, the world has started recognising that climate change is not just an ...

Indicative of hope, the journal, Science, chose as its 2025 “science breakthrough of the year” the remarkable surge of ...

Learn more about the hidden molecules uncovered in animal fossils from an ancient human site, and the new view they give us ...