Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious mix of features ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

When an elderly Ed Edwards died in 2011 while awaiting execution, he had confessed to five murders. He was suspected in more.

The tools would have helped Neanderthals hunt migrating herds of reindeer, giant deer ... that skulls found in Xuchang in central China's Henan province also displayed some Neanderthal features ...

The site was also home to red deer fossils ... a new population of prehistoric humans whose skulls are an unusual mosaic of primitive features, like those seen in our ancestors hundreds of ...

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than you may realize.