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

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

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

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

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

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

A little over 100,000 years ago, groups of prehistoric humans in the Levant suddenly began burying their dead, marking one of ...

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.

The new dating of an object found decades ago in Poland reinforces the idea that early humans in Central Europe had ...

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

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