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

Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean’s top predator likes to make friends. Researchers cataloged 34 ...

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 ...

Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...

An international team of scientists has analyzed a carved mammoth tusk found in the Oblazowa Cave in southern Poland, ...