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 ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent. Dromedary camels walk through sand dunes in the Arabian Desert near Margham, ...

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

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A human skull found in 1990 ...

This week, researchers identified a key driver of pancreatic cancer spread. Oral bacteria were linked to Parkinson's disease via the gut-brain axis. And scientists are advising California legislators ...

The Algarve coast now offers one of the clearest windows into Neanderthal life on the Iberian Peninsula. Two new hominin track sites discovered on Portugal beaches change how we view Neanderthals’ ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. 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, ...

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, ...