Archaeologists recovered the naturally mummified remains of more than 100 Indigenous Yakuts who were buried in Siberia ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...

These fossils may be the best candidate for 'African populations lying near the root of this shared ancestry.' ...

The 9,500-year-old remains of a woman in Malawi have set a new record, marking Africa's oldest evidence of intentional ...

A young chimp swings through the jungle canopy at the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project at Kibale National Park in Uganda. Image credit: Kevin Lee/Ngogo ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago unearthed in a Moroccan cave are providing a deeper understanding of ...

DNA analysis shows strong ties to Early Bronze Age Sicily, with little influence from the eastern Mediterranean. There’s also ...

Protecting heritage in Canada requires training more archeologists and equipping them with the tools and education to do so.

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...