New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

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The findings may reveal new insights into early human mating preferences Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty A new study suggests Neanderthal males mated with human females more often than the reverse ...

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—According to a statement released by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a new study conducted by Ari Matmon of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Omry Barzilai of the University of ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia. It was thought that this probably happened in the eastern Mediterranean region, but ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Fruit wasn’t just a snack for early humans—it was survival. This video explains how fruit shaped diets, movement patterns, and early human evolution. Geography decided where fruit was available, when ...

The earliest known hand-held wooden tools, used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece. One is made from the trunk ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

Niguss Gitaw Baraki receives funding from the Leakey Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Dan V. Palcu Rolier's work was supported by NWO Veni grant 212.136, FAPESP grants 2018/20733-6 ...