Deep cave layers on Sulawesi preserve tools, bones, and art that may show modern humans overlapping with earlier hominins.

Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

Our understanding of how our species evolved has improved dramatically since we first began analyzing ancient DNA. This year, researchers made impressive discoveries across 3 million years of human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...

A handful of stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the date that human relatives arrived in the region. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study provides fresh evidence that ancient interbreeding with archaic human species may have provided modern humans with genetic variation that helped them ...

Discover evidence of ancient hominins coexisting with early humans in Indonesia 200,000 years ago. A groundbreaking find for ...

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Findings about our human ancestors continue to surprise us, especially those from 2025. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A handful ...