A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...

The story about our ancestors can change at any moment thanks to the tireless work of researchers. In 2022, a team of experts unearthed fragments of a human skull in the Sima del E ...

The skull, found in 2015 ... there was a clearly primitive hominid just lying there on the surface in the dirt." This discovery led to the excavation of bones from 15 separate skeletons, shedding ...

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

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 oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...