A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

A 140,000-year-old skull discovered in Skhul Cave on Mount Carmel, Israel, may represent one of the most significant findings ...

Archaeologists in 2023 announced the discovery of the oldest known wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia. The discovery ...

A 140,000-year-old hybrid child's skull found in Israel shows traits of both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, rewriting the ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

The pair belonged to the species Homo habilis, an extinct hominin that’s one of the earliest representatives of the same genus as our species, Homo. They first appeared in East Africa around 2.4 ...