New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

For the first time, scientists have shown that ancient human DNA can survive for thousands of years on cave walls, opening ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa. By analyzing genetic data from diverse modern African ...

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other hominins went extinct. Yet how and when Homo sapiens dispersed out of Africa, ...

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Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

What just happened? The internet has passed a very unwelcome milestone: for the first time in history, bots have surpassed human traffic online. The announcement came from Cloudflare CEO and ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. The great out-of-Africa migration is one of the canonical ...

Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humans have adapted to survive extreme heat, cold and everything in between. (George Pachantouris/Getty Images) Just under 300,000 ...

A fascinating new documentary series is coming to TLC, shining a spotlight on people living with some of the world’s rarest physical conditions. “Most Extreme Humans” premieres Wednesday, June 10 at 9 ...