Homo sapiens may rule the world today, but things haven't always been that simple — and we're far from the only humans to ...

Grease is the word – at least, it was for Neanderthals living in what is now Germany some 125,000 years ago. New research ...

Scarlett Johansson leads a crew of explorers into uncharted territory—and very familiar blockbuster terrain—in yet another ...

The author of “Sapiens” says that for the first time in tens of thousands of years, humanity has competition. And it’s coming ...

In 2010, Mijares and his colleagues unveiled the 67,000-year-old fossil, which they tentatively suggested belonged to a small-bodied member of Homo sapiens, making it perhaps the oldest sign of ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch ...

The new dating of an object found decades ago in Poland reinforces the idea that early humans in Central Europe had ...