In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists are casting doubt on the headline-making study Birds Make an Alarm Call That ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Turkey, uncovering a lost land bridge that could significantly alter our understanding of human migration and European history. This remarkable ...

A roughly 1-million-year-old Chinese hominid skull has long vexed efforts to nail down its evolutionary identity. Fossil comparisons using a new digital reconstruction of this specimen, dubbed the ...

A digital reconstruction of a one-million-year old skull in China called Yunxian 2 suggested that our species started to emerge half a million years earlier than previously believed, according to a ...