Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practised or taught tool-making techniques using ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

Researchers in China have uncovered 55,000-year-old advanced tools, suggesting an unknown human species matched Neanderthal ...

Live Science reports that bones from one of the smallest human ancestors, who lived two million years ago, were retrieved ...

They show the gritty side of dinosaur life,” Lacovara said. “Dinosaurs were authentic beings that lived under their own ...

Scientists have discovered Ikaria wariootia, a 555-million-year-old fossil in Australia, believed to be the earliest ancestor ...

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented ...

While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...