The extinct human species Homo floresiensis was a scavenger, not a hunter, an analysis of fossil animal bones reveals.

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi more than 65,000 years ago? This is the question posed by ...

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Scientists analyzed proteins from the teeth of at least 20 Homo naledi individuals and found no male markers, suggesting a ...

This potentially all-female burial site opens up new questions regarding Homo naledi’s culture and social structure. If the ...

Analysis of 27 genomes reveals more diverse, better-connected populations and challenges the idea that genetic decline caused ...

New research uncovers a lost world of strange crocodile relatives that once thrived across Australasia alongside early humans.

Could we – that is, Homo sapiens – and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi more than 65,000 years ago? This is the ...