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

Scientists have revealed the most scientifically accurate reconstructions of what ancient humans would have looked like.

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

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

But a number of finds in our century have challenged this notion: the short-statured Homo floresiensis of Indonesia, who inhabited Flores perhaps as far back as 700,000 years ago; the 118,000 to ...

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

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

According to the authors, the huge cache of bones may have been collected over a period of time before being imported to ...

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

Researchers have reexaminated a mammoth ivory boomerang that was discovered in Obłazowa cave in Poland in 1985.

From antiquity to modern times, the city has been rife with creatures that creep, slither, scurry and nest among its pillars ...