Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

When viewers returned to the Croodaceous in The Croods: A New Age (streaming now on Peacock) the Croods and their companion Guy (Ryan Reynolds) were still on the hunt for a new place to settle down.

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...

PARIS — In 2017, paleoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin, now a professor at the Collège de France, shook up his discipline by pushing back our species’ origins by 100,000 years. While the emergence ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Up until recently, the consensus was that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were separate species. But most humans carry about 2% of Neanderthal DNA, challenging the view that we are different. Other ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago. A new study challenges the notion that ...

Researchers suggest 140,000-year-old child remains from Israel's Skhūl Cave may have belonged to a Homo sapiens-Neanderthal hybrid. Hanay via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In 1931, ...

An international study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the French National Center for Scientific Research provides the first scientific evidence that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had ...