Females from two hominid species that roamed the South African savannah more than a million years ago left their families and struck out on their own, say researchers. Thursday, June 26, 2025 News ...

There are more than twice as many females as males buried in an ancient cemetery in Spain, a new study finds — but no one knows why. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family, now spoken ...

Archaeologists unearthed Los Abuelos, aka "The Grandparents," a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city in Guatemala, complete with pyramids and mysterious monuments that reveal new traces of the ancient ...

Males of this ancient human cousin weren’t always bigger than females. Proteins from a collection of fossils hint at sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

Researchers have identified some of the earliest known cases of sex-chromosome syndromes — in five ancient humans. “It’s quite interesting to think that these people existed throughout human ...