The discussion on why the majority of people are right-handed has been attributed to brain functions, evolution, cultural and ...

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

From stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that ...

Researchers are learning more about our ancient ancestors who left footprints in volcanic ash dubbed the "devil's trail".

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 ...

Homo heidelbergensis was not afraid to tackle big animals.

He determined the skull belonged to an extinct hominin species he dubbed Homo rhodesiensis. Contemporary scientists generally consider the skull, still kept at the Natural History Museum, to be from H ...

“Homo erectus, has a average cranial capacity ... insisting that we’re just going to group these guys into this name heidelbergensis,” Bae said. “And now it’s becoming clear that the ...

As a paleontologist, I traveled in May 2023 to the Indonesian islands of the Riau Archipelago, just south of Singapore, as part of an ongoing quest for evidence of Homo erectus, one of our oldest ...

A long-standing question about when archaic members of the genus Homo adapted to harsh environments such as deserts and rainforests has been answered in a new research paper. A long-standing ...