Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down to the genes some of us have inherited from ...

A 140,000-year-old skull discovered in Israel suggests a possible Neanderthal-Homo sapien hybrid child. Unearthed in Skhul ...

MailOnline has asked leading paleoanthropologists to reveal what the hybrid children of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals would have looked like.

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

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

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

A new study, drawing on a wealth of genetic data, suggests that the capacity for language was present at least 135,000 years ago in humans alive at the time.

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop. Until recently, many fast-changing parts of the human genome remained ...

Iconic ‘Dragon Man’ Skull Offers First Glimpse of What a Denisovan’s Face Looked Like, New Genetic Studies Suggest The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now ...

Science News: A new study reveals that ancient Homo sapiens possessed a unique adaptability, thriving in diverse and challenging environments across Africa before t ...