Genetic evidence suggests the last shared ancestor of present-day humans, as well as ancient Neanderthals and Denisovans, ...

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their analysis of a handful of bones they think represent the last common ...

The 67,800-year-old reddish-colored stenciled image has become faded over time and is barely visible on a cave wall, but ...

S ome groups of European Neanderthals may have lost the ability to make fire during the colder periods of their existence. As ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

The human immune system like fat and blood sugar levels may have been due to genetic mutations from Denisovans, our little known extinct human relatives ...

Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...

Since the turn of the millennium, our understanding of our ancestors and extended cousins has shifted dramatically, thanks to ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

The timing and location of our species’ emergence remain unclear for lack of evidence but a new discovery in Morocco brings ...

The painted outline of a human hand inside a cave on the Indonesian island of Muna represents what researchers are calling ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a mysterious human ancestor.