Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

The modern-day Bo people of southeastern China have long maintained that they had no connection to those inside the hanging ...

Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...