Learn how shells found in a Turkish cave may show Neanderthals and modern humans shared culture, tools, and symbolic habits.

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

A cave on the Turkish Mediterranean coast was inhabited first by Neanderthals and then Homo sapiens, but the continuity of ...

All known skeletons of the ancient human relative Homo naledi discovered in a South African cave system appear to be female, ...

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

Photo: Katerina Harvati Replicas of a Homo habilis skull (right) and an early Homo sapiens skull (left), illustrating two key ...

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

A study of fossil teeth from China shows early mammals got bigger before their diets became specialized after the ...

Teeth from the Rising Star cave system are offering an unusual window into Homo naledi, one of the oddest branches on the human family tree. A new study suggests that every known skeleton of the ...

New evidence from Wonderwerk Cave suggests early humans were handling fire far earlier than once believed, deep inside a ...

Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil, still reshapes how scientists explain human evolution nearly 50 years ...