A remarkable discovery in South Africa's Rising Star caves unveiled Homo Naledi, an extinct human ancestor. The inaccessible chambers yielded numerous fossils, sparking debate about their deposition ...

“The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is astonishing,”remarked Aylwyn Scally, a geneticist at the University of ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...

Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy’s species wasn’t alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big ...

The study of human origins provides a fundamental narrative for our biological and cultural evolution. By combining fossil evidence with archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data, we can trace the ...

A beach walk in Norfolk led to the discovery of a 780,000-year-old hand axe, rewriting early human history and settlement ...