New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills with its own style of bipedal walking. The evidence shows that multiple early ...

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

Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.

Archeologists say they have finally cracked the 6,000-year-old mystery of Armenia’s “dragon stones" – massive carved ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific community's best guess for the likely path of early human migration. While walking ...

The Harbin cranium, known as Dragon Man, is one of the most complete ancient skulls ever found and may represent a newly ...

In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...