Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now ...

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...

Two species of ancient humans who were thought to be unknown to each other roamed the plains of Africa side by side 1.5m years ago, a study suggests. Archaeologists uncovered four sets of footprints ...

As the cave was over 100 kilometres from the coast when the pendant was made 15,000 years ago, it suggests that ancient ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially rewriting the story of human evolution. The ancient human nicknamed 'Pink' lived in Spain's Iberian Peninsula between ...

From her studies, Fiona concluded that the relative absence of creepy-crawlies was the biggest reason chimpanzees build nests ...

Scientists have discovered an ancient relative of all living apes in northern Egypt, highlighting how the hunt for human evolutionary history spans well beyond celebrated fossils found in east Africa.

Could a newly discovered fossil in Egypt fundamentally change everything scientists currently know about human evolution? Here's what we know so far about this remarkable find and its potential impact ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the ...

The bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like? Paleoanthropologists study millions of years of fossil evidence to try and ...