Recent advances in ancient DNA analysis have sparked intriguing discussions about the possibility of non-human entities once ...

Recent archaeological discoveries have unveiled ruins believed to be part of a civilization dating back 20,000 years, ...

Categorising the Denisovans as a distinct species would allow us to more comprehensively trace our own evolutionary ...

But a novel technique is allowing us to peer back further than DNA's expiration date in Africa, to answer long-standing ...

Early human ancestors also carried these toolkits of carved and chipped stones long distances, possibly indicating an ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

According to Finestone, Nyayanga stones are significantly older than other known examples of ancient stone transport. Previously, the oldest evidence of hominins moving rocks over significant ...

The human family tree is looking more and more like an unruly bush. Paleontologists have now uncovered the teeth of two different ancient human lineages at the same site in northeastern Ethiopia ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Learn more about the discovery of ancient tools that indicate early humans used them to dig up and harvest vegetables for ...

Now, a new study offers support for the hypothesis that these ancient viral remnants play a key role in the early stages of human development and may have been implicated in our evolution.