Early human migration timeline into South America has stirred debate. Researchers have long argued about when these first ...

Tracking the footsteps provides modern scientists a view into ancient life.

BISMARCK – North Dakota Health and Human Services (HHS) received notice Monday that federal pandemic-era grant funding supporting behavioral health services will end effective immediately, ahead of ...

The researchers suggested that only after using naturally sharp stones for cutting did ancient humans faced selective ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long ...

Evidence of one of the smallest - and perhaps unluckiest - early human relatives has been found in South Africa, according to ...

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

Archaeologists discovered a 1.1 to 1.4 million-year-old fossilized partial face in northern Spain, making it the oldest human ancestor remains in western Europe. The fossil indicates early humans ...

(Maria D. Guillén/IPHES-CERCA) The earliest evidence of human activity at the "gates of Europe" dates back to around 2 million years ago, which leaves plenty of time for waves of early human migrants ...

The discovery suggests that early humans settled in Europe, traveling from the east side of the continent to the west, about 1.4 million years ago, the researchers said. Until now, the oldest ...