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

But there was one problem: the skull had been crushed and distorted over time. Its true shape had been hidden by pressure, age, and damage. Some features ...

A new, comprehensive study shows that Europe’s landscapes over the past more than 20 million years have predominantly been a ...

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

At several archaeological sites in southern Africa, hundreds of highly unusual fragments of ostrich eggs have been found.

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

New discoveries are rewriting human evolution faster than ever before. From Denisovan–Neanderthal hybrids to 175,000-year-old underground structures built without sunlight, the old “caveman” ...

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

From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.

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

Archaeologists have uncovered a 476,000-year-old wooden structure near Kalambo Falls in Zambia, making it the oldest known timber construction on Earth. The discovery predates Homo sapiens and ...

The bony facial protrusion might be an evolutionary byproduct that resulted from changes to other parts of the skull, according to a new study ...