All humans today are members of the modern human species Homo sapiens — Latin for "knowing man." But we're far from the only humans who ever existed. Fossils are revealing more and more about early ...

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...

The patient is an older adult with underlying health conditions. A Washington state resident has tested positive for bird flu, marking the first human case confirmed in the U.S. in nine months. The ...

A new study explores the long-debated question of when humans first developed language. Genome-level research suggests early Homo sapiens may have begun using language around 135,000 years ago. While ...

A Canadian teenager has been hospitalized with bird flu, the first human case of H5N1 in the current outbreak detected in the country. A teenager in British Columbia has been hospitalized with a ...

The man was over 65 and had underlying medical conditions, according to the Louisiana Department of Health Peter Garrard Beck / Getty Images Health officials have announced the first death linked to ...

The site where the earliest known human-made fire was discovered was the "perfect location" for early humans, a researcher ...