Ancient humans

Vanguard Cave is one of four caves that make up the famous Rock of Gibraltar and a nine-year-excavation project led researchers to a sealed chamber with evidence of long-gone Neanderthal life inside.

The results of a five-year study will show that modern man walked the planet much earlier than was believed and Neanderthals died out much sooner than was estimated.

An Australian scientist is at the centre of a Stone Age mystery.

Humans have many half-Neanderthal, half-human ancestors. But none of those ancestors passed us Neanderthal Y-chromosomes. Now scientists think they know why.

1. 49 million years ago, a giant bloom of floating plants (Azolla) in the Arctic Ocean tipped the Earth's climate from very hot to very cold.

The shift away from polygyny to monogamy with the dawn of agriculture could be down to the impact of sexually transmitted infections in communities

Asks Dr Pinna. "If you have a “RED GENE” freckles, light skin, reddish hair, that is a sign. High intelligence is also a Neanderthal tra...

A bone fragment reveals that a girl born 90,000 years ago was the offspring of two different human species.

When we look for physical representations of famous people from the pre-photography past, the only remaining options we have are either the grim skeletal remains or barely detailed and imprecise artistic depictions. Some artists try to reimagine what a particular queen or medieval peasant might've looked like, but their vision and imagination are limited to their own times. However, technology has advanced to the levels where we can employ science to depict historical figures as if they were…