Walking upright all the time is one of the unique features that sets Homo sapiens apart from other primates still around ...

Homo heidelbergensis is widely seen as the most likely last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans. Known from ...

Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of ...

What did people do all day before jobs were invented? A video explores how early humans spent their time. Spoiler: It wasn't ...

Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6,000kg [13,000 lbs]). This was Elephas (Paleoxodon) recki, a prehistoric titan that roamed the landscape ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Before Neanderthals and Denisovans, before Homo erectus, before Lucy and other australopiths, who was the ancestor that gave rise to human evolution? Fossils of hominoids that lived during the Early ...

Scientists uncovered evidence that human blood cells may trace their origins back to single-celled ancestors that lived 700 ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Among the many other human species that once inhabited ...

Anthropologist and author David Samson examines how the story of human sleep unfolded in his new book, “The Sleepless Ape.” ...

But they add one caveat. Someday, they say, the researchers must teach them how to get history from the ground. The quest for fossils of human ancestors began in earnest after Charles Darwin proposed ...