ancient humans

For more than a million years, a small ancient human relative survived quietly on the volcanic island of…

Anthropologists have been debating the life and times of Indonesia’s prehistoric “hobbit-like” human ancestor, Homo floresiensis, ever since…

A model of a Neanderthal woman Joe McNally/Getty Modern humans may indeed have wiped out Neanderthals – but…

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for…

In 1960, a villager found something terrifyingly creepy in Greece’s Petralona cave—a humanoid cranium with a protrusion on…

Our ancestors are known to have gotten frisky with other, now-extinct species of humans, leaving traces in our…

The real-life ‘Hobbits’ survived on an Indonesian island for thousands of years, until a long drought may have drove them away | World News