A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it's probably closely ...

A newly reconstructed 1-million-year-old skull from central China may rewrite key chapters of human evolution. Researchers say the fossil, Yunxian 2, represents the earliest known member of a ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? If H. habilis really had begun the shift towards eating meat, they argue, the only ...

New methods extracted ancient DNA from sediments in Siberia’s Denisova Cave, revealing both Neanderthal and Denisovan presence. Alongside the DNA, archaeologists uncovered Paleolithic jewelry, ...

The names of human ancestors are now on an asteroid map. The geological features of an oddly shaped asteroid visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft now have official names, and like the mission's moniker, ...

Homo floresiensis was a diminutive species of hominin that lived on the Indonesian island of Flores and went extinct about 60,000 years ago. While hominin brains kept increasing throughout human ...

The origins of our species may lie much further back in time than we thought, and the same may be true of our extinct Neanderthal and Denisovan cousins. According to a new analysis of fossil remains, ...

Inhalers that combine providing immediate relief with a longer-term preventative effect are already recommended as the standard treatment for mild asthma among people aged 12 and above in the UK, US ...