In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

The new work suggests that scavenging persisted among humans long after hunting emerged. So while it has long been argued ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...