Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

A new AI study finds leopards hunted early humans in East Africa, challenging long-held ideas about when our ancestors became ...

The 61-year-old Tennessee man plans to sue after authorities dropped charges over a political Facebook post. Free-speech ...

A newly discovered Neanderthal site on Portugal’s Algarve coast has revealed the first fossilized footprints of these ancient humans in the region. A new international study published in Scientific ...

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

New research reveals that early humans changed Europe’s landscapes long before farming began, using fire and hunting to alter ecosystems.

Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in the study of the first humans on Earth, who lived approximately 2.75 ...

Different histories of contact with Denisovans in East Asia: While the ancestors of mainland East Asians met Denisovans ...

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of ...