Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big ...

Neanderthal blood types may have made them ill-equipped to deal with infectious diseases.

Backyard Theatre is performing the seminal rock opera, which was a phenomenon when it premiered in 1996, this weekend and ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Sweden plans to store nuclear waste for 100,000 years, but the author questions whether this is feasible given the ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

Comparison of that ancient DNA with modern human DNA showed that the two species had interbred and that people today still ...

ur ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first ...

Trump and the people who surround him evidently believe that the time has come to roll back some of the gains chalked up by ...

Australia’s First Nations population, the Aboriginal Australians, say that they have always been in Australia. The evidence suggests that they are right. Indigenous Australians arrived on the ...

This reconstructed visage of "Dragon Man" from the Harbin Skull is linked to a group of early humans called the Denisovans.

Tens of thousands of years ago, an extraordinary chapter in the story of humanity unfolded. Two distinct branches of the human family tree—modern humans and Neanderthals—crossed paths in a meeting ...