A recently published study has unveiled seven hominin footprints along South Africa's Cap south coast, with one of the footprints now being the oldest ever recorded. The findings were published in an ...

Sacre bleu! Big news on the early modern human front this week in France as researchers published findings that suggest Homo sapiens were actually roaming Earth about 10,000 years earlier than ...

Chinese one-million-year-old Yunxian 2 skull challenges Homo sapiens timeline Re-dated to between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old and reassigned to Homo longi, the specimen could shift the ...

The discovery, published in the leading scientific journal Science, was shocking even for the research team, which included scientists from a university in China and the UK’s Natural History Museum.

The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of a massive volcanic eruption in Ethiopia reveals ...

Nov. 2 (UPI) --Neanderthal children grew at the same rates and were weaned at roughly same age as Homo sapien children, according to a new study published Monday in the journal PNAS. Scientists were ...

The peer-reviewed journal Science published a study describing the digital resurrection of Yunxian 2, a crushed skull unearthed near Yunxian in China’s Hubei province. Re-dated to between 940,000 and ...

Just over two decades ago, as the new millennium began, it seemed that tracks left by our ancient human ancestors dating back more than about 50,000 years were excessively rare.