A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Israeli-French research applies new techniques to a fossilized child's skull found in northern Israeli cave, and finds ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

Discovered approximately 90 years ago, the fossil was reanalyzed using advanced micro-CT scanning and 3D modeling. A ...

Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached the ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who ...

Past investigations have already showcased that the ability to speak in a particular language was facilitated in the Homo ...

An international study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the French National Center for Scientific Research ...

A non-human creature dubbed Homo naledi was discovered nearly a decade ago — and researchers now believe the creature may have had a head start on Homo sapiens, or humans, in using fire as a tool.

Homo naledi, an extinct human relative, buried dead and carved symbols long before modern humans, new research at the Rising Star cave system in South Africa found.