New research challenges a key archaeological site in Chile, raising fresh questions about when humans first arrived in the Americas.

A new analysis of genetic studies proposes that the cognitive capacity for language was already present at least 135,000 years ago.

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

Recent discoveries have reshaped the human evolutionary timeline, from older stone tools to newly identified human species and unexpected behaviors. Advances in excavation, dating, and genetics ...

(CNN) — Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

The findings, published Thursday, are based on a reconstruction of a crushed skull discovered in China in 1990 and have the potential to resolve the long-standing “Muddle in the Middle” of human ...

For over three decades, the badly crushed and distorted Yunxian 2 skull remained an enigma, its true significance hidden beneath layers of geological damage. The breakthrough came when researchers led ...

BANGKOK – A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday.