The first crewed spaceflight of NASA’s Artemis program will break records, achieve historic firsts, and pave the way for ...

The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material ...

Two prehistoric genomes have revealed the history of HPV and challenged the idea that Neanderthals first transmitted the ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Scientists believe they have uncovered the 'missing link' in human evolution, showing how our species may have evolved.

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...

Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

In the high plains of central Türkiye, scientists have recovered a fossil that may hold new clues to the origins of the human lineage. The specimen, a partial skull found near the town of Çankırı, ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

A sophisticated simulation has traced the fateful collision of two human species across ancient Iberia, showing that Neanderthals were already in decline when modern humans arrived, and their chances ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...