Is it possible that a previously unknown human species or subspecies roamed in Europe without us realizing until now? In this ...

The earliest skeletal evidence for the presence of humans outside of Africa was found beneath a medieval village in Dmanisi, Georgia, in 1991, yet there’s still some uncertainty as to which ...

The facial remains are not those of Homo antecessor, an archaic human species whose roughly 900,000-year-old remains were previously found at the same site, according to the research.

A blast from the past! Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest-known human fossil ever ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

More modern human species on the Asian mainland (such as Denisovans and Neanderthals) were already known to have hunted bovids, and while no evidence for this had been found on Java, the presence ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...

A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 28, 2025, Section D, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Early Human Relatives Thrived in Harsh Desert.

A gene called ASDL, which helps synthesize DNA, differs between modern humans and our extinct human relatives. The findings ...