In the plains of western Ukraine, researchers digging through ancient soil found a handful of small, broken pieces of ivory ...

The oldest-known human bones in Europe were just discovered in a cave in Bulgaria. The cave also contained ancient tools handcrafted by these early humans over 40,000 years ago.

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces and large noses, but the reason for this difference has eluded ...