For over 60 years, scientists believed they had found some of the oldest human fossils in Japan in the Ushikawa district. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavations have been underway since 1994 in the Hominid Cave at the Thomas Quarry I, south-west of the city of Casablanca in ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A precisely dated Moroccan cave sequence places hominin jaws and teeth at 773,000 years old, near a key split in our lineage.

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

Multiple groundbreaking studies are rewriting timelines of human evolution, from genetic adaptations over the last 10,000 ...

Photo provided to China Daily] High on a cliff in Lushan county of Pingdingshan city, Central China's Henan province, a small ...

What can bones tell us about life millions of years ago? A paleobiologist decodes chemical clues to uncover how animals lived ...

Of all the early human ancestor fossils ever found, “Lucy” may be the most famous among examples of Australopithecus, a group of ancient hominins that lived in what is now Africa more than two million ...

Joseph Shavit Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after ...

Intensifying wildfires across the continent are spewing air pollution, putting human health at risk, particularly Americans ...