Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

A groundbreaking new documentary series titled Human is set to bring the ancient past of our evolutionary relatives to life in stunning detail. Using hyper-realistic 3D facial reconstructions, the ...

Nao Mukadi/AFP/AFP In Gabon's sprawling forest, archaeologists dig for ancient clues that could unlock the secrets of how prehistoric humans lived and interacted in the changing landscape of central ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Tens of thousands of years ago, our species — Homo sapiens — ...

A new find in the Ayvalık region of western Turkey suggests that prehistoric humans somehow "walked" across what is now a deep body of water.

The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought.

The vibrant blue pigment has been discovered by scientists in a prehistoric stone ' paint box' found in southwest Germany. It ...

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague. The findings show zoonotic diseases began spreading around 6,500 years ...

In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...

Some 30,000 years ago, humans sailed 140 miles from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island, navigating the Pacific Ocean’s powerful Kuroshio currents. But how exactly did they manage to complete ...