The history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, ...

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

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 ...

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

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

A fresh study suggests that some of humanity’s earliest “geometric thinking” wasn’t scratched onto cave walls, but etched into ostrich eggshells used by Ice Age people in southern Africa. By measuring ...

Recent scientific breakthroughs highlight diverse discoveries, ranging from a small dinosaur fossil in Argentina to insights into prehistoric interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

CENIEH is part of the international team publishing in Nature Ecology & Evolution a comprehensive review of two million years of fossil and ...

In Argentina, researchers have discovered a well-preserved fossil of one of the world's smallest-known dinosaurs, Alnashetri cerropoliciensis. Scientists also reveal insights into Neanderthal-Homo ...

These three connected stories about the whole of human history can’t quite sustain the necessary emotional heft.