Five paddlers journeyed from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island in 45 hours. Their efforts provide new insights into ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia is relatively well known. However, how ...

Researcher used carbon dating to provide evidence that humans had arrived in Brazil much earlier than previously thought.

The predecessors of the Neanderthals likely split from the ancestors of modern humans at least 500,000 years ago, and spread out across Europe and into southwest and central Asia. The new study ...

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

Early humans tried to leave Africa many times, but only one group succeeded because they were better at surviving in different environments.

Researchers used a canoe replica to trace Paleolithic migration from Taiwan to Japan, showing how early humans crossed seas ...

The journey capped off years of test models analyzing how ancient people in East Asia may have navigated through the powerful ...

Early H. sapiens were likely trickling out of Africa tens of thousands of years before. An upper jaw found in Israel suggests humans arrived in the region by 180,000 years ago.