The debate around the evolution of modern humans has intensified with new findings about Homo sapiens fossils from East Africa. The oldest remains currently known were discovered at Djebel Irhoud ...

Researchers have reexaminated a mammoth ivory boomerang that was discovered in Obłazowa cave in Poland in 1985.

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

Homo sapiens — mingled and interbred with other prehistoric humans: our distant cousins, the Neanderthals and Denisovans.

That’s because these people bear many striking similarities to modern humans even though they lived well before what may be the oldest fossil evidence of Homo sapiens, from a site in Ethiopia ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

A fossil of a human finger bone found in Saudi Arabia, was recently dated to 88,000 years ago. If confirmed, the finding would be the first and earliest Homo sapiens fossil found on the Arabian ...

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

The ancient boomerang wasn't found alone; it lay alongside a human phalanx—a small bone from either a finger or a toe.

A mammoth tusk artefact discovered in a Polish cave could be Europe’s earliest example of a boomerang and even the oldest ...

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