A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

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 ...

A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100 ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

"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 ...

Fossils of hands and feet belonging to an extinct human relative that lived about 1.52 million years ago suggests they were ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene called MUC19, inherited from Denisovans through ancient interbreeding, may have played a vital role in helping Indigenous ancestors adapt as they migrated into ...