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.

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

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 ...

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