In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests.Researchers analyzed a skull that was found at a ...

SAPIEN FEELING" examines the human-centric bias shaping our perceptions in a symbiotic world of technology, nature, and evolving relationships ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Dense with tall, light-swallowing spruce trees and rooted in sodden, fertile ground, the Šumava Forest along the Czech-German ...

Yet, none of these alone explain the extraordinary rise of human civilisation from scattered bands of hunter-gatherers to ...

Jane Goodall began her groundbreaking field study by living among chimpanzees in Tanzania. In 1986, she told the BBC how ...

The artist has lately been derided as a colonizer and a pedophile, the creep of the Post-Impressionists. A new book ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Researchers are on firmer ground when it comes to the physiological impacts of increased UV radiation. With the weakened magnetic field, more harmful radiation would have reached Earth’s surface, ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...