A groundbreaking new documentary series titled Human is set to bring the ancient past of our evolutionary relatives to life ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, ...

A team of scientists teamed up to date and identify the collection of more than 6,000 fossils, placing them between 131,000 ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

The five-part BBC series examines how we, as Homo sapiens, went from being just one of many types of human to becoming the ...

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees.