In 1949, a fossil jaw was discovered in a cave and has now been identified as belonging to a previously unknown human ...

In this video we are going to take a look at the currently oldest known fossilized human footprints, dating back to 115,000 ...

Learn how with painstaking effort, archaeological artists bring back faces from the past.

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

A huge study of ancient DNA reveals the origins of the Yamna, who spread across Eurasia around 5000 years ago, showing they came from a mixing of populations north of the Black Sea ...