Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

The return of the Dubois Collection from the Netherlands places Indonesia at the heart of human evolution studies, opening ...

The timing and location of our species’ emergence remain unclear for lack of evidence but a new discovery in Morocco brings ...

For years, scientists believed that Homo erectus was the first human species to venture out of Africa around 1.8 million ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

Researchers have succeeded in reconstructing the skull of an individual from the family of early humans, discovered in Ethiopia. This digital reconstruction thus offers a unique portrait of a being ...

Evidence that modern humans and an older hominin species used the same cave, probably during overlapping periods, has been ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site is home to the oldest hominid fossils in Europe, and many studies have tried to sort through the fossils to ...

Fossils of archaic humans found in a cave in Casablanca are helping to fill a gap in the history of humanity's evolutionary ...

Deep beneath the waters near Indonesia lies a forgotten land that’s rewriting our understanding of human history. A fossilised skull and thousands of animal remains have surfaced, offering a glimpse ...