South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

In a discovery that reshapes our understanding of early human migration in Southeast Asia, scientists have recovered the ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete Denisovan fossil to date.

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have ...

Fossils from 7,000-year-old Caribbean reefs show a 75% drop in sharks and a rise in prey fish numbers and size.

A study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as ...

These Early Humans Lived 300,000 Years Ago—But Had Modern Faces. Some modern human traits evolved earlier, and across wider swaths of Africa, than once thought.

Humans have been around on Earth for thousands of years, but there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out of ...

New research has found that a skull from a mysterious human relative nicknamed “Dragon Man” belongs to an extinct archaic ...

While humans had long survived in savanna and forests, they shifted into everything from from dense rainforests to arid deserts in the period leading up to 50,000 years ago, developing what Hallett ...