A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.

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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. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Human babies arrive with nearly 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most ...

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 ...

Researchers discovered the facial fragments in a cave in northern Spain. National Research Center for Human Evolution Researchers in Spain have discovered mysterious fossilized facial fragments that ...

A fossil discovery in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human evolution. Scientists found a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton ...

Leaf through a textbook, watch a wellness influencer or listen in at the gym, and it can feel as though the human body has already been mapped to exhaustion. Every muscle named, every nerve traced.

Around 850,000 years ago, a toddler was decapitated and cannibalized, cut marks on one of their neck bones suggest. The bone, which belonged to an archaic human relative, was found at the Gran Dolina ...

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The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over millions of years. It comprises an axial skeleton, which consists of the skull and the spine, as well as an ...