Skulls of Neandertal ancestors show the prehistoric humans had a hearing capacity similar to present-day people, suggesting human speech could have originated much earlier than previously thought.

New research with Amazonian villagers suggests that their language lacks number words but that they still comprehend precise quantities of objects.

A European astronomy group beamed a video of a Doritos sacrifice to the god of salsa at a possible alien race in a star system associated with the Big Dipper.

Scientists find that two rock crystal skulls often attributed to pre-Columbian societies are really modern phonies.

Incan healers became highly adept at skull surgery techniques that developed over thousands of years in ancient Peru.

Excavations of a cave in northern Spain have yielded a fossil jaw and tooth that provide the first solid evidence that human ancestors reached Western Europe more than 1 million years ago.

By 6 million years ago, upright human ancestors had evolved a hip design that remained stable for perhaps the next 4 million years, until the appearance of hip modifications in Homo erectus.