New dating of sediments from the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa suggests some Australopithecus fossils are around 3.4 to ...

Early humans crossed Philippine seas 40,000 years ago, building coastal networks, fishing offshore, and developing maritime ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

An international research team from Germany, the UK, and Greece has found evidence that wooden tools were used in Greece ...

Explore the decades-long journey to map the full human genome, from early breakthroughs to the first complete, gapless DNA ...

The Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile has long been the crown jewel of evidence for the early peopling of the Americas, widely accepted as proof that humans arrived long before the ...

Early humans were quarrying stone as far back as 220,000 years ago, revealing surprisingly advanced planning and resource use.

If possible, Elon Musk’s recent appearance on the Moonshots with Peter Diamandis podcast may be the most sweeping claim he’s ...

Homo sapiens emerged as an anatomically distinct species by roughly 230,000 years ago, based on fossil evidence from eastern ...

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier ...

In 2010, police searching for a missing woman began finding human remains in the scrub along a barrier island parkway near ...

Police were searching for a missing woman in 2010 when they began finding human remains in the scrub along a barrier island ...