This is the first time we have connected a cranium to Denisovans,” said evolutionary geneticist Qiaomei Fu, and in this way, ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

A remarkable fossil discovered in northern China suggests that multiple human species once shared the region around 150,000 ...

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

Deep in the heart of northern Zambia, an astonishing archaeological find is reshaping our understanding of early human history. Hidden beneath the powerful ...

In the remote heart of northern Zambia, a captivating archaeological discovery has emerged beneath the roaring waters of Kalambo Falls. Researchers have ...

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...