To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

When the trailers for Twisters dropped, the sequel to the 1996 blockbuster Twister, they promised a rollicking weather ...

For decades, the story of human origins has been pieced together from fossil evidence scattered across Africa, Europe, and ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, an extraordinary chapter in the story of humanity unfolded. Two distinct branches of the ...

Somehow, H. erectus was able to adjust to this new landscape. The early humans visited water holes that popped up after it ...

New insights were made on early human relatives, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, and their interactions with modern humans, as well as clues to interactions between hominins over one ...

In 1921, a Swiss miner named Tom Zwiglaar made an extraordinary find. While working in a lead and zinc mine in what is now Zambia, he stumbled across a remarkably preserved skull. The specimen, now ...

A detailed analysis of these remnants was used to recreate the climate and activity of a direct ancestor of modern humans, ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth, provide crucial information for understanding the origins of modern humans. The archaeological record ...