How did the earliest members of the modern human species get here? Who did we evolve from? How did we live? Where did we live ...

Science writer Henry Gee paints a less horrific but equally worrying picture of humanity’s future in his book The Decline and ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

An early human species – the Denisovans – who went extinct 25,000 years ago – lived across more of the world than was thought ...

Who was the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and us modern humans? The last common ancestor of both the Homo sapiens and ...

Additionally, ancient humans may have ramped up their use of ochre. This naturally occurring pigment is composed of iron ...

About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

Modeling Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field from 41,000 years ago suggests how Homo sapiens’ sun-fighting strategy helped ...

Ochre clay used in body painting gave our ancestors protection against a rise in harmful UV radiation, say scientists ...