A seven-million-year-old skull found in Chad sits at the center of a long argument about human origins. The species, ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have found the earliest known traces of humans deliberately kindling fire, ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

This combination of 2007, 2018 and 2012 photos shows, from left, the Cederberg mountain range in South Africa, the Tenere desert in Niger and savanna in South Africa. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

Learn how ancient DNA from human remains provided the first direct evidence that a common childhood virus has been part of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. “Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists,” said ...