A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Learn about the overlap between archaic humans that once lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the modern humans ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

Could we - that is, Homo sapiens - and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on ...

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

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

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

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.