The Homo genus started approximately 2.3 million years ago when a new species evolved and was distinctly different from the Australopithecines that used to roam the African continent. This is the ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Meanwhile, a big male specimen of Australopithecus afarensis was found to have had limb proportions like those of early members of Homo -- but it lived 3.58 million years ago, way before Homo ...

Neanderthals shared the world with Homo sapiens for a while, ... Richard Leakey, son of Mary and Louis Leakey, in 1977 holding an Australopithecus skull in his right hand, ...

Neanderthals were more muscular than the later Homo sapiens, and their skulls were flatter, with broad noses and pronounced brow ridges. Yes, they lived in caves—but they’re not the simplistic ...

If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our ...

A newly documented species, called Australopithecus sediba, was an upright walker that shared many physical traits with the earliest known Homo species -- and its introduction into the fossil ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Elena Zavala of the University of California, Berkeley, about new research showing how homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and may have even interbred.

The layer containing the Homo sapiens child’s tooth spans 56,800 to 51,700 years ago. In different layers, the scientists discovered eight other teeth that belonged to Neanderthals.