The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

The five-part series examines how we, as Homo sapiens, went from being just one of many types of human to becoming the ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

O n Thursday evening, the Erdem flagship store in London was the scene of a joyful Pride cocktail hosted by Erdem Moralioglu ...

Homo naledi was a strange mosaic of the ancient and the thoroughly modern. Naledi’s brain was no bigger than an orange, scientists say, and its hands are superficially human-like.

Homo naledi, an extinct human relative, buried dead and carved symbols long before modern humans, new research at the Rising Star cave system in South Africa found.

Take heart in this impression. A century ago, when adolescent psychology first emerged as a field of study, that was exactly ...

Homo naledi, an extinct human relative, buried dead and carved symbols long before modern humans, new research at the Rising Star cave system in South Africa found.