They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

There have been 108 billion Homo sapiens born on Earth. But you are the very last one. With no other babies being born after you, you would be the end of the human race and its legacy. What would your ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

The identity of the cannibals remains unknown, but scientists say it may have been early Homo sapiens preying on rival ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex ...

Community members share thanks for local support and promote a Naples light display.

In comparison, he writes, the 300,000 years since Homo sapiens evolved is so brief that “in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.” In this special issue on ...

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

When the three-million-year-old bones of Lucy were unearthed in an Ethiopian valley in 1974, paleoanthropologists anointed ...