Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

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

This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...

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

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

Neanderthals had a taste for fat, and they worked hard to get it. Long before humans built cities or invented writing, these ...

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

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad noses, their features jutting forward like cliffs of bone. Chimpanzees, our ...

In Subnautica 2, players will explore an all-new alien ocean world rich with vibrant biomes, strange creatures, and hidden secrets.

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

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel. It forms part of the oldest intentional human burials ever discovered, ...