Exciting new research reveals a fascinating connection between the ancient Dragon Man skull, unearthed in China, and the ...

Humans aren’t the only animals with numerical awareness, although we are alone in our ability to perform symbolic ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

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

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

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Out of their 300,000 years of existence, Homo sapiens have spend the majority of their time in Africa, the undisputable ...

The work explores how AI can become an ally of humans, enhancing rather than replacing their cognitive, creative, and design ...

Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...

Europe’s earliest known boomerang, carved from mammoth tusk and over 40,000 years old, reveals advanced skills of early Homo ...