A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Our species is defined by a long list of cultural and genetic traits that set us apart from our ancient counterparts. New research suggests at least some key distinctions date back earlier than ...

Long ago, early humans shared the earth with several archaic human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. These species, were bipedal and close relatives of modern humans. They lived in parts ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...