Tiny triangular-shaped flints from arrowheads found in Uzbekistan shed light on how the first settlement of ‘Homo sapiens’ – ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

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 ...

Researchers push back the timeline for their arrival by 600,000 years, raising new questions about how the species spread around the globe.

A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.

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

Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...

A TERRIFYING new dinosaur with a swordlike crest has been compared to a beast from “hell”. The prehistoric predator was found in a remote part of the Sahara after 95 million years in a ...

Findings suggest human ancestors spread across Asia earlier, faster and possibly more successfully than commonly believed ...

On the few occasions that I have encountered Professor Michael S. Akpan personally, I have always been struck by his evident sense of humility, meek mien and unassuming disposition. Yet, when it comes ...

Kenya has added another heavyweight to its human-origins story: KNM-ER 64061, a two-million-year-old trove of Homo habilis bones from Lake Turkana. In the latest January issue of The Anatomical Record ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same cave. The enticing possibility even exists that both species overlapped, ...