When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...

One of the most enigmatic extinct human species, is Homo floresiensis, the Hobbit species. Apparently, there are some people ...

Ecce Homo, a painting by Italian Renaissance master Titian, has been found to be hiding a mysterious portrait of an unknown ...

A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds. The ...

Researchers in Cyprus have discovered a hidden portrait that lay undetected for centuries beneath a 1570 oil painting by ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

An extremely large brain that’s bigger than that of our species, Homo sapiens, the only surviving hominin. The feature is reflected in the proposed name for the species, revealed by Bae and Wu ...

Homo sapiens' entry into Europe might have hastened Neandertals' extinction. Neandertals may have had a greater penchant for cannibalism than Homo sapiens.

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first ...