Scientists Discover Remains of a Baby With a Nearly Complete Skull, It's 150,000 Years Older Than the Lucy Specimen ...

The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe ...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains ... research in Science found that genetic variants inherited from our Neanderthal ancestors are unevenly ...

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows. Not only that, the items are ...

In Ethiopia, they found hominid skull, jaw, and arm bones plus a few teeth that dated back to 4.4 million years ago. That would make these the oldest hominid ancestors yet identified, and the most ...

And it’s also home to the oldest known remains of a gorgonopsian, an important ancestor of modern mammals — a fact that could change our understanding ... saber-toothed super predators stalking the ...

The fossil represents the oldest ... well-preserved remains of a Gorgonopsian, an ancient predator belonging to the Therapsid group. This species, thought to be the earliest ancestor of mammals ...

The species, named 'Denisovans' after a cave some of their remains were found in ... of this ancient human's appearance, offering the most realistic look at our Denisovan's ancestors to-date.

A study of 780,000-year-old food remains ... human hunter-gatherers. The research has revealed that hominins—a group containing modern humans plus our closest extinct ancestors and relatives ...

Through sediment analysis, meanwhile, the changes in rivers and lakes could be ascertained. Found in their thousands at Oldupai Gorge, stone tools tell us about how our early ancestors hunted and ...