Ancient stone tools that were discovered in the Tunel Wielki cave in Poland around 50 years ago have been re-examined and dated. Instead of belonging to Neanderthals living in the region these tools ...

Because their relative isolation encourages speciation, oceanic islands are hotspots of biodiversity. Yet their relatively ...

Remains of an extinct species of Bronze Age cattle have been discovered by archaeologists in a cave in the Yorkshire Dales.

A new Dartmouth-led study reveals that hominins began eating carbohydrate-rich foods long before their teeth evolved to ...

Early human ancestors had an extreme body size gap between males and females, suggesting intense male competition and unique ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

A newly published study has found that males of some of our earliest known ancestors were significantly larger than females.

The findings come from a team led by researchers at Dartmouth College, and offer the human fossil record’s first known ...

Hidden in the long-forgotten personal archives of a 20th-century anatomist was a pair of images depicting an extinct species ...