A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previous studies indicated, rewriting our understanding of early human ...

A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than ...

The team calculated that the mosquitos likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some 2.9 to 1.6 million years ago. This overlaps with the same period in which ...

The preference of some mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group—including those that transmit ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans.

In 2021, scientists made a breakthrough when they classified a 140,000-year-old skull from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, as ...

Two fossil skulls discovered in Yunxian, northern China, are now dated to approximately 1.77 million years ago, making them the oldest known hominin remains in eastern Asia. The new findings overturn ...

Archaeologists raced to document the semi-fossilized tracks in eastern Scotland. They were likely made by humans, deer and ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations ...

But the next time you squash one of these bloodsuckers, consider this: you are participating in a bitter rivalry that goes back to the time of Homo erectus. It turns out that mosquitoes have been ...

Fossils from Callao Cave on Luzon include 13 specimens from at least two adults and one child, dated between 67,000 and 50,000 years ago. The remains show a mosaic of traits, with some features ...