The footprints, which had been attributed to the devil, appear to have been made by four different individuals of differing shapes and sizes, according to a new study ...

Around 350,000 years ago, a now-extinct volcano in southern Italy violently erupted, spewing ash high into the atmosphere and filling a nearby valley with molten pyroclastic material. As this hellish ...

The measurements fit with estimates of how our Homo heidelbergensis ancestors would have looked - with the extinct species thought to have traversed Europe before evolving into Neanderthals and ...

H. sapiens emerged around 300,000 years ago, evolving from Homo heidelbergensis and migrating out of Africa, gradually replacing local populations of archaic humans. For most of history, all humans ...

Homo erectus was probably the first hominid to use fire. Also known as Homo heidelbergensis, this species has a brain that was larger than H. erectus' and smaller than that of a modern human.

The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...

Homo antecessor might have become extinct from Europe some 600,000 years ago and next came Homo heidelbergensis, followed by the Neanderthals and finally, the modern humans or Homo sapiens, who ...