Though some might be surprised to see Neanderthal DNA in their ancestry test results, people of non-African descent derive 1 ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Fossils show humans coexisted with giant sloths and mastodons for thousands of years. Evidence includes modified sloth bones ...

New discoveries reveal that giant sloths and mastodons coexisted with early humans in the Americas for millennia.

These findings hint at a remarkably different life for these early Americans, one in which they may have spent millennia sharing prehistoric savannas and wetlands with enormous beasts. "There was this ...

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths ...

Gifting began in Africa, when the first humans like us emerged. It then evolved as people migrated and was adapted to fit different cultures. Early examples involved the transfer of cattle or ...

This date happens to coincide with the end of the last Ice Age, a time when an ice-free corridor likely emerged in North America — giving rise to an idea about how early humans moved into the ...