Nearly half a million years ago - far earlier than researchers once believed - early humans were already building wooden structures.

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a ...

Humans have been missing the mark since the beginning of their evolution, and the key to remedying this is to recognize the ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic signature locked into the surrounding sediments. The hominin remains show a blend ...

“The chin evolved largely by accident and not through direct selection, but as an evolutionary byproduct resulting from direct selection on other parts of the skull,” University of Buffalo biological ...

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when our capacity for language arose. According to new research, genes likely to ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

Fossils from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to 315,000 years ago, represent the oldest known Homo sapiens remains. Found alongside Middle Stone Age tools and evidence of fire use, they challenge ...

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...

When viewers returned to the Croodaceous in The Croods: A New Age (streaming now on Peacock) the Croods and their companion Guy (Ryan Reynolds) were still on the hunt for a new place to settle down.

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 ...