A new study suggests that some modern brain malformations may be linked to Neanderthal ancestry. Researchers have found that ...

If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Homo erectus fossils discovered on the island of Java come from a population that died between 117,000 and 108,000 years ago, researchers found. ... passing on about 1% of their DNA.

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution in the upcoming new ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

That's within the window proposed by the 2013 paper suggesting that this super archaic DNA comes from Homo Erectus. However, since we still don't have a genome sequenced for that particular ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.