Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

Image Credit: By Davidwiz - Own work, CC BY 3.0 Art has been a cornerstone of human expression for millennia, capturing emotions, ideas, and the spirit of the times. From cave walls to NFTs, the ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the archaeologists' previous discovery in the same region by 15,000 years or more. An ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...