Wild monkeys challenge a long-held assumption about the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees
Wild sooty mangabey monkeys can bend the middle of their feet almost as much as chimpanzees flex their…
1.4-million-year-old footprints in Kenya suggest Paranthropus boisei was far larger than thought and walked in groups
A group of fossil footprints found beside an ancient lake in northern Kenya is giving researchers one of…
A Quantum Microscope Can Show Us How Neanderthals Tended Their Fires
Artistic illustration. Image credits: ZME Science. The last flames kindled by Neanderthals died tens of thousands of years…
A Man Took a Stone Blade to the Face 100,000 Years Ago and Lived to Tell the Tale
The skull and jaw of Qafzeh 25. Credit: Ana Pantoja et al. A scan of a fossil jaw…
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared culture for over 20,000 years, cave study suggests
Neanderthals and modern humans appear to have shared far more than the same landscape. A new study from…
The most controversial fossil site in human evolution just got even more puzzling | News
(CNN) — Humanlike fossils have emerged from the deep and twisting caverns of the Rising Star cave system…
Mystery cave collapse uncovers ‘advanced human time capsule’ | History | News
Archaeologists have uncovered a remarkably preserved prehistoric cave that is helping researchers piece together a crucial chapter in…
Largest Denisovan DNA study reveals ancient genes still active in Oceanian populations
Ancient DNA inherited from Denisovans, an extinct group of human relatives, still influences the biology of people living…
100,000-year-old Homo sapiens bones from Ethiopia may preserve earliest evidence of human cremation
Researchers studying Ethiopia’s Afar Rift have reported what could be the oldest known evidence of human cremation. The…
China scientists argue that harsh settings, not warm climates, drive early human creativity
Archaeologists in central China have directly challenged the long-held belief that humanity’s earliest ancestors reached their creative peak…
Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference
Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates…
Cut marks on 1.6-million-year-old bones reveal early humans moved and processed meat in Kenya
A new study from northern Kenya adds fresh detail to how early humans found, processed, and consumed meat…