Scientists examining traces left behind by early humans continue to find evidence that refuses to stay neatly in place. New ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

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

Thiel was also one of the founders of Palantir ( PLTR ). Leveraging some of the early fraud detection systems of PayPal, ...

A new primate study links same-sex behaviour to survival, social bonding, and environmental stress, raising intriguing ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and manage fire about 400,000 years ago. The findings, published in Nature, ...

SHARJAH - In the rolling desert landscapes of Sharjah, a remarkable discovery is helping rewrite what we know about early human history. A groundbreaking study, recently published in Archaeological ...

Scientists have gotten an unprecedented look at how the human embryo implants in a uterus. They did this by creating very primitive, womb-like environments in the lab. "This is really important work ...

The skull had the brow of a descendant but the face of an ancestor. When researchers finished reconstructing the DAN5/P1 cranium from Ethiopia’s Afar region, dated to between 1.6 and 1.5 million years ...