Fossils of 600-million-year-old "tiny humanoids" were discovered in Antarctica. A story perpetuated in some social media ...

Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...

Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

Early humans of Homo juluensis had a large head shape, with measurements notably larger than those of Neanderthals and Homo ...

Two species of ancient humans walked beside each other 1.5 million years ago, fossil footprints have revealed.

Study provides first evidence of different bipedalism styles on same footprint surface, attributed to both species.

You’ve probably seen an image like this floating around. It’s based on “The Road to Homo Sapiens,” better known as “The March ...

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

Everyone knows the Neanderthals, homo sapiens, and Denisovans are amongst the first human species. The sapiens are considered ...

These early forerunners of Homo sapiens wandered in a landscape teeming with wildlife, including giant maribou storks that ...