Ancient humans

A collection of dinosaurs and other awesome creatures that are now extinct.

While antibiotics are taken for granted in the modern world, a lack of sophisticated medicine 40,000 years ago is believed to have seen the archaic species suffer and then perish.

The shift away from polygyny to monogamy with the dawn of agriculture could be down to the impact of sexually transmitted infections in communities

New research shows they shared many behaviors that we long believed to be uniquely human. Why did science get them so wrong?

In the 19th century, it was considered shocking that humans could have evolved from apes, yet less than 150 years later, it is largely taken for granted. These images by Daniel Lee give an artist's view of evolution.

Back in 2014, archaelogists recovered remains of a man who died about 500 years ago. He was one of 4 sets of skeletons found, all of which showed signs of childhood malnutrition and heavy manual labor, which suggests that all of them were poor. As one of the skulls was well preserved, they used it to reconstruct what the man looked like 500 years ago.

A six-year study found people ended up in Europe, Asia and Oceania by crossing the sea to Yemen around 70,000 years ago, not across the Sinai Desert as previously thought.

Scientists determined a skull found in China is a new species named Homo longi, or Dragon Man, which is the