Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.

Bones from the hominin, dubbed “Pink” after the rock band Pink Floyd, significantly predate those of a species previously ...

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...