Oldest Human Skeleton Found in Thailand Awes Archaeologists, Nicknamed PangPond After Popular Cartoon Character For decades, ...

MailOnline's graphic below shows this 'hidden chapter' in human evolution spanning from 1.5 million years ago (top) until the modern-day (bottom). For the study, the team used data from the ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

The skeleton of a child, affectionately named "Pangpond" after a beloved Thai cartoon character, was discovered in a remote cave in Thailand and is estimated to be over 29,000 years old ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...