Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

Long before Homo sapiens, Neanderthals constructed circular stone formations deep inside French caves. These 175,000-year-old structures challenge everything we thought we knew about Neanderthal ...

“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...

The Neanderthals are our closest evolutionary human cousins and for hundreds of thousands of years were much more successful at colonizing Europe than we were. Recent archaeological evidence shows ...

Forty-one millennia ago, deep inside a Belgian cave, Neanderthals left behind a disturbing legacy. Mixed in with the scattered remains of horses and reindeer lay fragments of their own kind—bones ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient human relative who lived alongside the species of the famous Lucy, scientists ...

Roughly 45,000 years ago, one group of Neanderthals in present-day Belgium killed and cannibalized another group made up of vulnerable women and children, according to grisly evidence uncovered in ...

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