A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered hundreds of rock art engravings that were carved by humans more than 12,000 ...

A new find in the Ayvalık region of western Turkey suggests that prehistoric humans somehow "walked" across what is now a deep body of water.

The human race is even older than we thought, and a new discovery has changed everything we thought we knew about our species’ earliest days walking on Earth. A major discovery analysed in a new paper ...

Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates – or our early human ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...

New research on the size relationship between brains and wisdom teeth suggests that bigger brains aren’t necessarily the ...