Explore five fascinating extinct human species that once walked the Earth beside Homo sapiens, from Neanderthals to the ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Nikkolas Smith, the bestselling illustrator, has a new children's book that takes a look at the innovative, creative dawn of our species.

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly ...

A labrador-sized dinosaur was wrongly categorised when it was found and is actually a new species, scientists have discovered ...