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

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

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

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

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

Ella Al-Shamahi explores the complexities of our past by meeting the fascinating human species we once shared the planet with ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago. Reading time 4 minutes Most of a human face ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

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

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.