Ancient DNA is turning human prehistory into something startlingly intimate. Instead of a clean handoff from one species to another, the last 50,000 years look more like a long, tangled story of ...

This image provided by National Museum, Prague shows the skull of an ancient human called Zlatý kůň, originally discovered in the Koněprusy caves of the Czech Republic. Credit: Marek Jantač/National ...

As if Neanderthals weren’t already mysterious enough, groundbreaking research adds a startling new layer to our understanding ...

New DNA Study Links Human's Low Pain Tolerance to Ancient Genetic Roots ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back the earliest fire-making," said archaeologist Nick Ashton. Scientists have ...

Scientists have found evidence suggesting that kissing dates back up to 21 million years and that our ape ancestors and Neanderthals likely locked lips, research published Wednesday said. Kissing has ...