A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

Discover evidence of ancient hominins coexisting with early humans in Indonesia 200,000 years ago. A groundbreaking find for ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same ...

Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever ...

A newly proposed species, Homo juluensis, has been introduced to explain unusual human fossils from East Asia. Researchers argue these remains represent a distinct population dating between 300,000 ...

Long ago, early humans shared the earth with several archaic human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. These species, were bipedal and close relatives of modern humans. They lived in parts ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...