Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

A group of scientists have discovered the jaw bone of an ancient human species that lived about 1.4 million years ago. The ...

Scientists have unearthed facial bones that may belong to a previously unknown human species. The bones, nicknamed "Pink," ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains. This carnivorous origin story has become so entrenched that few questioned it: our ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

Lawmakers and campaigners in the United Kingdom are pushing for an end to the display of human remains in museums and the ...

Writing lets us trace language back about 5,000 years, but the spoken words is over a million years old. Psychology, biology ...

Researcher Cazenave emphasizes, "these fossils show that this species, comparable to modern humans, walked upright but was ...

Did early humans have rules for how words could be strung together? What impact did this have on their brains and behaviour?

Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, lives in a Kolkata slum in stark ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...