Although about half of primate species play as adults with other adults, a team of international researchers has just ...

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...

Mammoth Cave National Park is the obvious companion destination, offering underground wonders to complement the aboveground ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

You may not know that our ancestors hibernated during the winter months. Why did we evolve out of this biologically prolific ...

The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological ...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human ...