The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

Specimen found in South Africa was widely thought to be member of ape-like human ancestor family that lived nearly 2 million ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their ...

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

Great apes are hugely popular with the public at zoos, but a dark illegal trade is affecting the survival of these much-loved ...

Scientists captured first real-time 3D video of human embryo implantation, revealing mechanical forces behind successful ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...