The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

The tools, found in an area where an ancient rainforest once stood, push back the oldest known evidence of humans in similar ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Scientists and researchers around the globe are investigating a series of mysteries about what happens to our bones over time.

Note: The project page for this work includes 33 autoplaying high-res videos totaling half a gigabyte, which destabilized my ...

Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practised or taught tool-making techniques using ...

DNA explains the enigma of the culture that painted swimmers and hippos in the middle of the desert thousands of years ago ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

It was in 2013, in South Africa's Rising Star cave system, that archaeologists first discovered the remains of H. naledi.