Humans are built for life on land, but what if evolution had taken a different path and sent us back into the ocean? To imagine this, we need to look at some of the ocean’s most incredible ...

If prehistoric megafauna had survived, human evolution might have taken a very different path. Survival pressures could favor ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with ...

Other groups of early human ancestors also left Africa and established long-term settlements elsewhere, including those that evolved into Europe’s Neanderthals, he said.

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. That allowed for global migration, new research finds.

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

An extinct group of humans that were once widespread in Asia don’t have an official species name – part of the reason is ...