An investigation is ongoing in New Hampshire after a duck hunter found human remains in Merrimack River over the weekend.

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

Are these some of the earliest weapons in human history? History Hit’s Tristan Hughes speaks to Dr Annemieke Milks, ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Canadian authorities have identified a person known as "The Woman in the Well" nearly two decades after her remains were found. The woman, Alice Spence, was born in September 1881 and had moved to ...

A North Carolina man was charged Tuesday with four counts of murder after telling authorities that he had killed his children ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...

A rock hound found a human skull in a Carbon County cave Sunday, prompting a sheriff’s investigation. Authorities say it may ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.