In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

Could Earth have hosted an advanced civilization before humans? This intriguing question is at the heart of the Silurian ...

A recent discovery in Cloggs cave, Australia, revealed something extraordinary about humanity’s relationship with time. Several metres into the limestone grotto, archaeologists working with the ...

In the deep human past, highly skilled seafarers made daring crossings from Asia to the Pacific Islands. It was a migration of global importance that shaped the distribution of our species — Homo ...

An analysis of a lava tube in Saudi Arabia reveals that humans have lived there for at least 7,000 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Over the course of our long, complicated evolutionary history, humans have seen our brains triple in size, now weighing in at roughly three pounds on average. At some point along the way, humans ...

Three million years of human evolution began with this face. Scientists put a face to a name in an epic way after digitally recreating the visage of Lucy, humanity’s most famous primate ancestor.