Did you get through your beach picnics unscathed this summer? Or did you return from a swim only to find a "seagull" (most ...

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 ...

Before settling down with actress Ali Larter, Hayes MacArthur carved out a career in comedy that spans television, film, and stand-up. The pair met on a movie set in 2005 and have been together ever ...

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

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 ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

I’m a 33-year-old man in the middle of buying a new home while selling my current one in Arlington, Texas. My real-estate agent keeps asking me to spend more money fixing up my old place, and it’s ...

HUBEI, China — A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.

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 found. The ...

A crushed ancient skull may hold clues to the origins of ancient humans. Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...