Our past is a rich tapestry filled with incredible discoveries and triumphs, but it also holds persistent knots of mystery ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add ...

Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

Our ancient primate relatives—including Neanderthals—may have enjoyed a nice peck on the lips. But researchers still don’t ...