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

Despite cultural exchange and natural disasters, this lineage—the oldest evidence for which is a collection of 8,500-year-old ...

Exploring new caves during the Upper Palaeolithic was fraught with danger, which is why one group of ancient humans in Italy ...

WASHINGTON (voa) – An international team of scientists led by French anthropologists has unearthed the oldest skull ever found in the human family, a seven-million-year-old fossil in the central ...

Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National ...

A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...