A chemical signature in Neanderthal remains that suggests voracious meat eating has long puzzled researchers. Now, new ...

The body parts of the child belong to Homo antecessor, believed to be the last common ancestor of both Homo sapiens and ...

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Human ancestors ate small children 850,000 years ago, a gruesome discovery has suggesed. Archaeologists were working at the ...

Over the years, the fossils found here were generally thought to belong to Homo sapiens, with some even speculating that the ...

When modern humans first migrated out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, they crossed paths with Neanderthals. Over thousands ...

According to new CT scans and models, parts of the 140,000-year-old skull resemble those of modern humans, while the jaw appears to be more similar to those of our extinct relatives ...

This evidence poses the question of why current human populations are predominantly descended from the latest “out of Africa” ...

Iceman may have come to an unfortunate end while crossing the Alps more than 5,000 years ago, but thanks to his ...

New study uses DNA evidence to challenge claims that humans arrived in Sahul 65,000 years ago, pointing to a later migration ...

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down to the genes some of us have inherited from ...

Neanderthals had a taste for fat, and they worked hard to get it. Long before humans built cities or invented writing, these ...