Humans aren’t the only animals with numerical awareness, although we are alone in our ability to perform symbolic ...

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

Neanderthals and Denisovans survived for half a million years; Homo erectus lasted nearly two million years. At the rate we’re going, how successful will we look in 2,000 years, much less a million?

Recent research clobbered that theory by showing pre-modern hominins evolution unique to Europe: The fossil, uncovered at the ...

Berghuis told the publication that by 350,000 years ago, Homo erectus was being replaced on the Asian mainland by the little-known Denisovans and by Neanderthals, and went extinct by about 108,000 ...

Archaeologists working in Southeast Asia recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor, according to new studies. The bones were part of a cache of ...

Maba 1 also suffered trauma before death, but the specific cause of the trauma remains unknown.