The buried remains of a small child, discovered nearly a century ago in a cave on Israel’s Mount Carmel, are once again at the center of a scientific storm. Long regarded as an early Homo sapiens, the ...

Ever since I was a child, I’ve been fascinated by the vastness of our planet. I felt it when playing in the forests near my house or when sitting at the beach, staring at the seemingly endless expanse ...

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...