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

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

The origin of modern humans may require some revisiting by experts, as they have gathered some crucial insights from the investigation of a one-million-year-old skull from China, suggesting previous ...

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.” ...