For over a century, scientists have puzzled over a fundamental mystery in our evolutionary history: how did mammals go from ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs to this group, after examining preserved DNA and proteins ...

Neanderthals arose about 430,000 years ago, living in Europe and central Asia until their demise some 40,000 years ago.

Humans have been around on Earth for thousands of years, but there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out of ...