Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Shutterstock When asked to picture a caveman, most people think of a dirty human who is hunched over wearing some type of ...

Humans have been around on Earth for thousands of years, but there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out of ...

Study claims 99% of human ancestors died off 930,000 years ago. John Timmer – Sep 1, 2023 2:56 pm | 121 Credit: Getty Images ...

Humans have inhabited all corners of the world today. But there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out from the face ...

A new study suggests human ancestors nearly went extinct some 930,000 years ago.; Scientists in China used modern human genomes to estimate what past populations may have looked like. The study ...

Research carried out on a bone dating back 1.45 million years indicates that human ancestors may not have only eaten ancient animals, but each other.

Our early human ancestors may have learned to walk on two legs not on savanna lands, but up in trees while foraging for food. Search for: Science. Archaeology; Ask Us Anything; Biology; ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools by about 1 ...

Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived – and that’s true for early human ancestors, too. To study how ancient humans used their hands, scientists used 3D scanning to measure ...