The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species ...
Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern ...
Found in a Greek cave in 1959, the Petralona skull has puzzled scientists for decades. Dated to nearly 700,000 years ago, it ...
We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...
Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...
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, ...
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 ...
A study published in the journal Science on Friday revealed that a reanalysis of an ancient human skull fossil, unearthed in Hubei province and dating back more than 1 million years, may rewrite the ...
Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...
Between 117,000 and 108,000 years the end was nigh for the hominins we call Homo erectus. They were the first of our ancestors to stand tall and walk upright, but even this ancient human species could ...
(CNN) — The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity and a gorilla-like grip. The hand bones, which were ...