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 ...

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.

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

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.

Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...