A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

Scientists have found strong evidence that early humans were making and controlling fire around 400,000 years ago, much earlier than previously believed, according to a report by The Guardian. The ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...