Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to leave Africa 1.8 million years ago.

H5N1 bird flu has infected growing numbers of people worldwide in recent years, but this week saw something new: the first recorded human case of an H5N5 avian influenza virus. What is this virus and ...

Early, ancestral members of the human lineage may have left Africa earlier than widely thought, a new study of fossil teeth suggests. Scientists investigated fossils excavated from the medieval ...