A newly dated Indonesian cave painting may be 1,100 years older than the world’s oldest known rock art, but not everyone is ...

High-altitude mountain passes were not the kind of place to sleep out in the open during the Ice Age, and Neanderthals couldn ...

Since the turn of the millennium, our understanding of our ancestors and extended cousins has shifted dramatically, thanks to ...

A genetic variant inherited from Neanderthals has been linked to reduced severity of Covid-19. Researchers traced the protective effect to an ancient gene still present in modern populations, showing ...

New research suggests ancient human species like Homo erectus could speak, reshaping our understanding of early human ...

A recent genetic study has revealed a direct link between Neanderthal ancestry and heightened pain sensitivity in certain ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

For more than three decades, Ötzi the Iceman has been a kind of time capsule for researchers—an Alpine body preserved so well that it keeps producing scientific “firsts.” Now, a new analysis suggests ...

Now Watching | Primal is back for a third season – and speaking with creator Genndy Tartakovsky, he hopes much more ...

Two prehistoric genomes have revealed the history of HPV and challenged the idea that Neanderthals first transmitted the ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...