"This region may have served as a migration route for several human species, such as modern Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, or ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

Archaeologists in Tajikistan have discovered a rock-shelter that may have been a migration site for Neanderthals, Denisovans, ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

In 2023 a research group from Aarhus University in Denmark found that light woodland and open vegetation dominated Europe's ...

Tajikistan rock shelter may reveal ancient human migration patterns Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens may have ...

Researchers propose a stunning new theory for why Neanderthals and humans started to bury their dead at the same time.

The alligator’s name is “Darth Gator” and he certainly lives up to it. Thanks to training, you have only to play the Darth ...

Recent excavations in Tajikistan's Zeravshan Valley uncovered an archaeological site dating back as far as 150,000 years, ...

However, Neanderthals tended to bury their dead deeper in caves, whereas H. sapiens were buried in cave entrances or rock ...

The two species began burying their dead at roughly the same time and place. Now some archaeologists think competition may have played a role in burials.

This is embodied in the so-called March of Progress illustration where a stooping chimp-like creature gradually morphs into Homo sapiens, apparently the apex of evolution. These days, we know ...