Ardi is a female skeleton that lived over 4 million years ago and could be the key to understanding how and when early humans started walking on two legs. Scientists are studying a bone in her foot, which can unravel the mystery of human walking.

4.4-million-year-old half human, half ape skeleton holds clues to mystery of humans walking on land

For the first time, archaeologists have found evidence that human civilisation thrived inside lava tubes to fight the heat in the deserts of northern Saudi Arabia.

Ancient humans lived in THIS vast lava tube in Saudi Arabia 7,000 years ago

Modern humanity's ancestors were on the brink of extinction some 900,000 years ago, reduced to a breeding population of barely 1,300 individuals due to climate change.

Climate change reduced ancient humans to mere 1,300 people some 900,000 years ago

Ancient humans from the Palaeolithic era in Western Europe may have followed the practice of chopping their fingers off to appease their deities, new research has found.

Ancient humans in Europe would chop their fingers off to appease deities: Study 

Back in June of this year, a team of researchers made sensational claims about a small-brained ancient hominid known as Homo naledi. The alleged discovery by the research team led by Professor Lee Berger of the University of Witwatersrand excited the scientific community to no end.

Scientists pooh-pooh claims that extinct ancient hominid 'Homo naledi' buried its dead

A recent study has confirmed that fossilised human footprints in New Mexico are likely the oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas, challenging previous archaeological beliefs.

Are these New Mexico footprints the oldest proof of humans in Americas?

Cannibalism, or eating another individual of the same species, was common in Europe some 15,000 years ago, a study published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews has revealed.

Europeans would eat, not bury, their dead 15,000 years ago: Study

Spanish people in Menorca, about 204 km southeast of Barcelona, were consuming hallucinogenic drugs about three millennia ago, new research has found. This was around 2,900 years before the birth of Spanish-speaking drug lord Pablo Escobar in South American nation Colombia.

People in Spain were taking drugs about 3,000 years before Pablo Escobar

New research is bringing to life for the first time a description of the social organisation and small community dynamics of Neanderthals.

New findings shed light on the social organisation of Neanderthals

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