For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

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

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

A crushed ancient skull may hold clues to the origins of ancient humans. Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, ...

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

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Recent advances in ancient DNA analysis have sparked intriguing discussions about the possibility of non-human entities once ruling the Earth. While such claims challenge the boundaries of ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...