For decades, scientists believed that early humans avoided rainforests, considering them too challenging for survival. Thick vegetation, limited food sources, and dense canopies were seen as barriers ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

Researchers have discovered a 7,200-year-old skeleton of a young woman in a cave in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, that provides new insight into the migration patterns of early humans. DNA from the ...

N ew evidence from West Africa is reshaping our understanding of early human migration and adaptation, challenging long-held ...

Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...

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

The study, published in Nature, provides fresh evidence of early human migration into Europe, challenging previous assumptions about when and how human ancestors first ventured beyond Africa.

Ancient DNA reveals that Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa, providing the earliest proof of prehistoric ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

Archaeologists discovered a 1.1 to 1.4 million-year-old fossilized partial face in northern Spain, making it the oldest human ...