A groundbreaking study reveals a 140,000-year-old child skull found in Israel may represent the first identified hybrid ...

Seven footprints believed to be about 115,000 years old have been found amid various prehistoric animal prints.

A new digital reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman’s ribcage shows a number of “ambiguous” features that might have assisted him ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens repeatedly interbred, shared genes, and merged populations over the course of nearly 250,000 ...

Scientists from the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), collaborating with international experts and institutions, have ...

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

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

AT the risk of raining on ITV’s latest celebrity parade, do you think this newspaper would’ve ­mentioned his death if Sir ...

New study uses DNA evidence to challenge claims that humans arrived in Sahul 65,000 years ago, pointing to a later migration ...

But look closer, and the Faya Palaeolandscape reveals something far more extraordinary: a prehistoric corridor where ...

One possible member of the new species H. juluensis isn’t a newcomer to science by any stretch. Denisovans—first identified ...