A GIANT duck-billed dino dubbed a “cow of the Cretaceous” that was unknown to science has been found. The mammoth beast would ...

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 ...

It's considered one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ...

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

A new fossil analysis supports the idea a human ancestor was walking upright far earlier than previously thought.

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

Early humans may have feasted on Neanderthal children 45,000 years ago, according to a grisly new study. Researchers have ...

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

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

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

The history of humanity on Earth spans well over a million years. Ancient human species such as Australopithecus, who walked ...