Eventually, the villager spotted something unexpected—the nearly complete cranium of an unknown, ancient hominin protruding from a small chamber’s interior wall. Although covered in calcite and ...

Human delivers an unusually clear picture of Homo sapiens as a species shaped by climate, animals, plants, other hominins and ...

The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...

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

The find suggests that as many as four different hominin lineages lived in eastern Africa between 2.5 million and 3 million ...

Ethiopian fossils uncover new species in human lineage as researchers discover Australopithecus teeth coexisting with early ...

Countless species lived and vanished before Homo sapiens appeared. From colossal predators to strange giants, these are the ...

Research led by Institut de Paléontologie Humaine is providing a finite minimum age for a nearly complete cranium from Petralona Cave in Greece that has perplexed researchers since its discovery in ...

A new study dates Greece’s Petralona Cave skull to as much as 500,000 years, offering fresh insight into early human evolution in Europe.

From Ethiopia comes an incredible discovery—early humans seem to have potentially lived alongside the very apes they evolved ...

It was the telegram exchange that sparked an identity crisis for humankind. In 1960 a young Jane Goodall working in a remote ...

Dental remains dating back 300,000 years, which were discovered at a well-known Chinese archaeological site, have revealed ...