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 ...

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

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

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

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.

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

After more than five months in space, four astronauts on a mission known as Crew-11 are about to cut their mission short and ...