This week, scientists digging in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert have discovered a new species of pachycephalosaur that pushes back ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

Ancient animal bones from Spain’s Malia shelter reveal repeated visits by early humans between 36,200 and 26,260 years ago.

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists now recognize more than a dozen species in the Homo genus. So what, exactly, was the ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

Arizona State University research scientists discover evidence of a new species of hominid that walked east African grasslands 2.6 million years ago. The discovery could offer new clues about a ...

Micronutrients, minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution more than ...