In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

Dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia, unearthed a treasure trove of thousands of animal fossils, including ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo ...

This may have made Homo species more resilient and adaptable than Paranthropus was, but unraveling what made H. sapiens ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...