Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

Geraru, Ethiopia, that hominin ancestors lived alongside each other reinforce the idea that evolution wasn’t a straight line.

A new study challenges widespread notions about khipus, intricate cord and knot information-recording systems, based on ...

Early human ancestors also carried these toolkits of carved and chipped stones long distances, possibly indicating an ...

But a novel technique is allowing us to peer back further than DNA's expiration date in Africa, to answer long-standing ...

An extinct group of humans that were once widespread in Asia don’t have an official species name – part of the reason is ...

Recent advances in ancient DNA analysis have sparked intriguing discussions about the possibility of non-human entities once ...

Here’s how it works. A new analysis of ancient human DNA uncovered evidence of humans being infected with germs from animals 6,500 years ago. (Image credit: Jacques Julien via Getty Images) ...