A reconstruction of an ancient skull suggests that humans could have evolved half a million years earlier than thought. Not ...

Imagine walking miles and miles across dangerous terrain frequented by sabertoothed cats just to find the right rock. Around 2.6 million years ago, a group of early hominins in East Africa started to ...

Prior to the start of the Ice Age, a period of global warming may have led to a northward shift of the monsoon rains, allowing prehistoric hominins to migrate out of Africa before crossing the Kazakh ...

Fossils found in Israel’s Nesher Ramla quarry, dated to 140,000–120,000 years ago, belonged to a new group of hominins. With traits of Neanderthals, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens, this lineage may ...