At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

Among primates, the human penis is an evolutionary outlier. Controlling for body size, humans have greater girth and generally longer penises than chimpanzees, gorillas, or orangutans. Unlike our ...

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

Learn more about the oldest rock art on record, a stencil of a human hand in Indonesia, which reveals important insights into ...

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

Homo heidelbergensis lived hundreds of thousands of years ago during a critical phase of human evolution. Fossil evidence ...

Archaeologists from University College London and the Natural History Museum suggest the findings offer insights into the ...

The art's creators were likely part of the population that would later cross the sea and become the ancestors of Indigenous Australians.

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

The discovery of a prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone in southern England is rewriting what we thought we knew about ...