Nearly half a million years ago, ancient humans at Kalambo Falls in Zambia shaped and fitted together large pieces of wood to ...

As the last ones standing, we Homo sapiens like to think of ourselves as the winners, but the truth is that one of our ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

Based on artifacts found in a limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast, scientists think the two species might have shared ...

Fossils discovered at Jebel Irhoud in Morocco date to about 315,000 years ago, making them the oldest widely recognized Homo ...

ZME Science. When scientists examined the incredibly well-preserved skeleton of a Neanderthal infant from an Israeli cave, ...

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

An international team of researchers has revealed that no male markers were found among the Homo naledi remains found in the ...

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens's closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...

About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years in the western part of the Eurasian continent, gave way to Homo sapiens, who had arrived from Africa. This ...

A child’s tooth unearthed from a French cave has revealed the earliest evidence of humans – Homo sapiens – living in western Europe. The discovery of the molar from Grotte Mandrin, near Malataverne in ...