The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum – the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

Footprints dating back 800,000 years have been uncovered on a beach in Norfolk, England, offering one of the oldest direct ...

The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

The real revelation, however, came from the men. Men considered a larger penis as an indicator of a rival with both greater ...

Beating the previous record for the oldest known cave artwork by at least 15,000 years, a hand stencil in an Indonesian cave ...