In 2024, a group of paleontologists journeyed into the dry, sandy desert of northern Egypt in search of fossils in a valley called Wadi Moghra. Scientists had previously found ancient monkey remains ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...