A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Archaeologists have found a prehistoric human skeleton deep inside a flooded cave system on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to any other ancient or modern population in South America. It is thought ...

Much-loved former University of Glasgow professor Willy Maley wants to leave his body for research to the university he worked in for decades ...