Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...
A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds. The ...
What species will become the next rulers of Earth when humans are no longer dominant? Which creatures might inherit the throne?
Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.
The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites across the country are clearly remnants of archaic hominins — the formal name for species in the human lineage — who ...
After more than 30 years of studying ancient human ancestors in Asia ... “The Homo juluensis fossil species is based off of the fossils from a site called Xujiayao, in northern China that ...