A breakthrough in human evolutionary research has finally revealed the place where Homo sapiens and Neanderthals first crossed paths. The discovery places the two ancient human species not in the ...

HUBEI, China (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought. A badly crushed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years ...

Researchers analyzed a skull that was found at a 140,000-year-old burial site and concluded that the child it belonged to had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics. However, ...

Fossil remains of an ancient hominin has been discovered in a quarry in Morocco. The remains are from a time when modern humans split off from Neanderthals and Denisovans.