A Wooden Club and Other Rare Finds Reveal ‘Invisible’ Side of Neanderthal Life
As one of our closest ancient human relatives, the Neanderthals knew how to exploit natural resources for their…
The real-life ‘Hobbits’ survived on an Indonesian island for thousands of years, until a long drought may have drove them away | World News
For more than a million years, a small ancient human relative survived quietly on the volcanic island of…
Here’s How This ‘Hobbit’-Like Human Ancestor Survived on an Island with Komodo Dragons
Anthropologists have been debating the life and times of Indonesia’s prehistoric “hobbit-like” human ancestor, Homo floresiensis, ever since…
Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatch
A model of a Neanderthal woman Joe McNally/Getty Modern humans may indeed have wiped out Neanderthals – but…
Million-year-old fossil changes what we know about human hands and feet
For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for…
Prehistoric Skull Found Fused to Cave Wall May Have Belonged to Mysterious Ancient Hominid
In 1960, a villager found something terrifyingly creepy in Greece’s Petralona cave—a humanoid cranium with a protrusion on…
Denisovan Mucus Gene May Have Helped Humans Survive in The Americas
Our ancestors are known to have gotten frisky with other, now-extinct species of humans, leaving traces in our…