Ella Al-Shamahi explores the complexities of our past by meeting the fascinating human species we once shared the planet with ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Humans have spent centuries shaping the world. But nature wouldn’t hesitate to take over if we suddenly disappeared.

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

Just when you think you have the internet all figured out, you stumble on something that takes you on a rollercoaster ride, ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Using 3D technology and other methods, the team identified Sahelanthropus’s femoral tubercle, which is the point of ...

The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean’s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the ...