Unearthed in 2022 at the Sima del Elefante site in the Atapuerca Mountains, the fossil belongs to Homo erectus or a close ...

Homo sapiens remains found in a cave in West Sumatra are among the proof used by Culture Minister Fadli Zon to support his ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists ...

Found in a Greek cave in 1959, the Petralona skull has puzzled scientists for decades. Dated to nearly 700,000 years ago, it displays features of both Homo erectus and early Homo sapiens. Its age and ...

New fossil evidence out of Africa strongly suggests that two species of hominin coexisted with each other over one million ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern ...

For more than 50 years, since the discovery of the skull of Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its extremely powerful jaws and massive teeth, ...

Paranthropus boisei fossils date to 1.52 million years ago Species was a member of the human evolutionary lineage Fossils show it would have been able to grasp stone tools Oct 17 (Reuters) - ...