New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that ...

The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...

A nearly complete skeleton from South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves, known as Little Foot, may represent a distinct branch of ...

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other ...

Primitive hominids may have lived in Africa at the same time as humans, researchers said Tuesday, in new findings that could change the understanding of human evolution. Fossils found deep in South ...

For more than a century, human origins have been told as a story of expansion, migration, and survival. But deep in that ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African prehistory. The remains come from Thomas Quarry I, and a new analysis pins them to ...

The idea of a rapid human transformation, which supposedly turned our ancestors into modern beings around 50,000 years ago, ...

(CNN) — Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans. Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted their ...