But they add one caveat. Someday, they say, the researchers must teach them how to get history from the ground. The quest for fossils of human ancestors began in earnest after Charles Darwin proposed ...

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

Long before modern humans appeared in Africa about 300,000 years ago, our ancestors faced a crisis that almost ended the lineage entirely. A groundbreaking study has revealed that between 930,000 and ...

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs—a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this atypical ...

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs – a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this ...

In 2001, researchers unearthed a scattering of fossils beneath the windswept dunes of the Djurab Desert of northern Chad. The remains were later identified as belonging to an extinct species, ...

Many modern humans love collecting unique rocks, from shiny gold nuggets to fossil-bearing stones and geodes filled with ...

An international study of integrated HHV-6 has discovered that a small number of human ancestors, one from about 24,000 years ago, have been responsible for transmitting ancient strains of the virus ...