Mexico has detected its first human case of H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu, the health ministry said on Friday.

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

The world’s top health experts are raising the alarm about the risk of fur farms, wet markets, and illegal wildlife trade as ...

The oldest-known human bones in Europe were just discovered in a cave in Bulgaria. The cave also contained ancient tools ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago, according to a new study ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest-known human fossil ever discovered in Western Europe.

This archaic human had been thought to be the earliest known inhabitant of Western Europe, predating the Neanderthals, who appeared on the continent some 400,000 years ago. Homo antecessor had ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists ...