Homo erectus may have deliberately selected rocks embedded with fossils and crystals to craft their hand axes.

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to leave Africa 1.8 million years ago. When you purchase through links on our ...

Multiple groundbreaking studies are rewriting timelines of human evolution, from genetic adaptations over the last 10,000 years to ancient DNA suggesting Neanderthals shared language-related sequences ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans. Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted their preference to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the study, published on Thursday in Scientific Reports, an international team of researchers analyzed the DNA of 40 mosquitoes ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

The generally accepted theory of the spread of ancient humans from Africa, where they first evolved, known as “Out of Africa,” holds that a single species, Homo erectus, subsequently migrated to ...

Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on the planet, killing hundreds of thousands of people every year by transmitting malaria, dengue fever and a host of other deadly diseases. Understanding how the ...