The exact relationships between all these early human relatives are still a bit murky. It could be that H. erectus is ...

Ancient 400,000-year-old teeth reveal early humans mated with ancestor Homo erectus - A recent study has unearthed crucial ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is a man on a mission: Travel across the world in the way the earliest humans out ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

A skull, unearthed nearly a century ago, has led to new revelations in the study of human evolution. Known as “Dragon Man,” the fossil has now been identified as belonging to the Denisovans — a ...

Tiny crystals hidden inside an ancient bone forced scientists to redraw the timeline of a famous Homo juluensis tool site.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo provided by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), researcher Ignacio de la Torre holds a bone tool found in ...

In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans ...

WASHINGTON — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...