The exact relationships between all these early human relatives are still a bit murky. It could be that H. erectus is ...

Proteins recovered from ancient human relatives that roamed China more than 400,000 years ago could explain how mysterious ...

Researchers extracted ancient proteins from six archaic humans and found something in common with other extinct relatives—and ...

The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological ...

Learn how proteins from six Homo erectus teeth, collected using a less invasive method, are helping fill key gaps in our understanding of this ancient human ancestor. Studying the proteins from the ...

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution of malaria in Africa in the last 70,000 years could hav ...

In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans butchered animals. Amidst bones, archaeologists found complex stone tools that ...

New research has revealed that ancient people in southern Arabia dined on an apex predator — sharks. The study, recently published in the journal Antiquity, centers on a tomb in Wadi Nafūn, an ...

Roughly 476,000 years ago, early human ancestors were already building wooden structures, far earlier than scientists thought possible.

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