Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains. This carnivorous origin story has become so entrenched that few questioned it: our ...

Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...

Did early humans have rules for how words could be strung together? What impact did this have on their brains and behaviour?

Writing lets us trace language back about 5,000 years, but the spoken words is over a million years old. Psychology, biology ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

After discovering fossilized facial bones in Spain, researchers now say they've found the oldest face of Western Europe. In 2022, researchers with the Atapuerca Project uncovered facial bones from an ...

Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...