An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

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

The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological ...

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

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...

Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the ...

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...

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 ...