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

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 ...

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 ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

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

Scientists have long thought that only Homo sapiens, who first appeared around 300,000 years ago, were capable of living sustainably in such inhospitable regions. The first hominins to have split ...

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 ...

Located in the Zagros mountains in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, Shanidar Cave served as an important place for ...