Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

Newly discovered footprints at Lake Turkana offer a rare glimpse into two ancient species coexisting and walking side by side 1.5 million years ago.

LOST remains of ancient Roman soldiers have been uncovered at the bottom of a well. Seven “victims of a catastrophic event” ...

The first set of ancient hand fossils from an ape-like cousin of humans discovered in Kenya suggest a number of species were capable of making tools 1.5 million years ago.

Along Turkey’s northwestern shoreline, where the Aegean Sea meets the olive-covered ridges of Anatolia, lies a quiet district ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it’s probably closely ...

HUBEI, China — A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.

A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially believed to belong to Homo erectus, is now thought to be part of the Asian longi clade, closely linked to the Denisovans, which ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...