Recent discoveries in Colombia have unveiled a previously unknown human DNA lineage in ancient remains, offering fascinating ...

Our ancestors are known to have gotten frisky with other, now-extinct species of humans, leaving traces in our DNA to this day. A new analysis has found that a certain genetic variant inherited from ...

The first people to step foot in the Americas were harboring a sliver of DNA from two extinct Eurasian human groups: the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, a new study finds. This genetic relic could ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

Archaeologists working on a dig site in the country of Georgia have discovered a 1.8 million-year-old human jawbone. The Orozmani Paleoanthropology & Archaeology Field School posted a video of the ...

Research shows that ancient humans used an array of stone tools - known collectively as the Oldowan toolkit - to pound plant material and carve up large prey, such as hippopotamuses, In southwestern ...

Near Peru's coast lies Caral, which existed as Egyptians were building the pyramids, and is the first known ancient city of ...