A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

Multiple "Homo" lineages existed during the Middle Pleistocene period, each of which had diverse physical forms, according to ...

Plastics form a lasting archaeological record, revealing global consumer habits, waste patterns, and environmental impact.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large head people," are believed to have lived in eastern Asia over 100,000 years ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Modern humans descended from ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

A 146,000-year-old skull recovered near Harbin, China, by scientists decades ago has now been found to belong to the Denisovans, an extinct relation to modern humans who lived in Siberia and East Asia ...

Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.