A pair of infant skeletons were found wearing other children's skulls as helmets in a 2,000-year-old grave site

At a pair of burial mounds in Ecuador, archaeologists uncovered two infant skeletons that...

Every person alive today descended from a woman who lived in modern-day Botswana about 200,000 years ago, a new study finds

Modern humans emerged in Africa around 200,000 years ago. Now, a research team has...

A 3.8 milion-year-old skull has been found in Africa. It changes our understanding of human history.

Australopiths were human ancestors that lived 4.2 million years ago. A new skull fossil...

A 210,000-year-old skull found in Greece is the oldest modern human discovered outside Africa. It changes our timeline of human migration.

Scientists think modern humans left Africa 70,000 years ago. But a 210,000-year-old skull...

Watch: humans are some of the only animals that don't have tails — here's why

Humans and other apes don't, even though our close primate relatives do.

Scientists may have discovered a new human species. It lived on a tiny island in the Philippines at the same time as Homo sapiens.

Anthropologists may have discovered a new human relative named Homo luzonensis on the...

People hadn't set foot in this ancient 'lost city' in the Honduran jungle for 500 years. Now the government is fighting to save it.

The Honduras government is fighting to save the Moskitia rainforest, home to an ancient...

A handful of recent discoveries has transformed our entire understanding of human history

Our understanding of human history has been thoroughly upended by a number of discoveries...