For 40,000 years, these bone-carved figurines lay silent, until now, exposing a lost story of our prehistoric ancestors.

New discoveries of Stone Age symbols in Germany could push back the history of writing by over 30,000 years, potentially ...

They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about who Neanderthals were, whether they mated with modern humans and when ...

“The artifacts date back to tens of thousands of years before the first writing systems, to the time when Homo sapiens left Africa, settled in Europe, and encountered Neanderthal,” explained Ewa ...

Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.

From Kate McKinnon to Rashida Jones, here’s every key cast member and the characters they play in Andrew Stanton’s In the Blink of an Eye. Read more.