The exact relationships between all these early human relatives are still a bit murky. It could be that H. erectus is ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

Horses were being ridden, worked, and traded long before anyone thought it possible. New research pushes back the accepted ...

That’s especially reassuring considering the seven U.S. passengers who got off the boat and flew home before the outbreak was ...

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...

Archaeologists analyzed a Neanderthal molar that seems like it was intentionally drilled, but some experts are skeptical ...

Agriculture reached the coast of southern Denmark around 4000 BCE, but these prehistoric Scandinavians continued to fish and ...

The Trump administration is suspending a requirement that foreign visitors from countries that have qualified for the World ...

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human ...

Proteins recovered from ancient human relatives that roamed China more than 400,000 years ago could explain how mysterious ...

A study from U.S. and Chinese researchers suggests Neanderthals and early modern humans probably had similar cognitive ...