Almost 100 years before calls to decolonize science, Taung was challenging researchers to reassess their internal biases.

RNA plays a vital role in how our genes are expressed and how diseases develop. Yet, because RNA molecules constantly change ...

The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species ...

Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern ...

New fossil evidence out of Africa strongly suggests that two species of hominin coexisted with each other over one million ...

Found in a Greek cave in 1959, the Petralona skull has puzzled scientists for decades. Dated to nearly 700,000 years ago, it ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

For more than 50 years, since the discovery of the skull of Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its extremely powerful jaws and massive teeth, ...

Analysis - Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...