Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

A new analysis suggests the evolution of human body size was marked by a major turning point rather than gradual growth.

But unlike other artifacts unearthed at ancient sites, rock art is difficult to link to its creators. Since it often adorns ...

Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

As humans, it’s important to remember that some of our oldest primate ancestors were apelike creatures. Besides our much larger brains and visibly obvious differences, such as facial features, one ...

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Ancient DNA recovered from cemeteries in southeast Siberia has revealed previously unknown strains of plague that had a deadly impact on an unexpected group of people 5,500 years ago. The early plague ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...