Early humans were not the feared masters of the savanna long imagined. On the contrary, some still served as meals for big ...

The series, presented by paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, will explore the story of human evolution over the past 300,000 years. The series explores how human beings went from being one of many ...

The skull had been crushed, but digital reconstruction corrected previous distortions and allowed scientists to gain a better understanding of the early human's physical traits, researchers said.

The Trump Administration recently called out the Smithsonian Institution for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives,” leading GOP Sen. Jim Banks last week to introduce a bill prohibiting ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...