The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is ...

A new ecological model suggests Neanderthals and modern humans interbred in the Zagros Mountains in what is now Iran before going their separate ways 80,000 years ago.

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

How did the earliest members of the modern human species get here? Who did we evolve from? How did we live? Where did we live ...

At more than five feet tall, the Ice Age stork Leptoptilos robustus would have towered over the three-foot-tall Homo floresiensis, who lived more than 60,000 years ago. Paleontologists previously ...

Sand dredging off the coast of Java has recovered more than 6,000 bones, including two fragments of skulls of the early humans Homo erectus. H. erectus and the other animals found there lived on ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Fossil discoveries from the seabed in the Madura Strait, Indonesia, including Homo erectus skull fragments and remains of 36 vertebrate species, indicate that ...

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Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has worked in the fields of neuroscience research and mental health treatment. Laura is an editor and staff ...

“Everything must be rewritten about the greatest extinction in humanity and our understanding of this incredible process that will lead Homo sapiens to remain the only survival of humanity ...