The grainy photo would look like something out of a scrapbook if it wasn’t also a bit pixelated: Two young men standing on a ...
What did researchers find? A 1.6-to-1.5-million-year-old skull from Ethiopia combines features from two different stages of ...
The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...
“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a ...
Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...
New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...
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 ...
Humans were isolated in southern Africa for about 100,000 years, which caused them to "fall outside the range of genetic variation" seen in modern-day people, a new genetic study reveals. The finding ...
(L)Haile-Selassie and his crew members in the field. (R) The Burtele Foot with its elements in the anatomical position.Stephanie Melillo, Mercyhurst University/Yohannes Haile-Selassie/ASU In a ...
That resourceful "trash panda" digging through your garbage may be more than just a nuisance -- it could be a living example of evolution in progress. A new study suggests that raccoons living near ...
About 12,000 years ago in northern Israel, an artist shaped a tiny, clay statue of a crouching woman and a goose. In a recent study, researchers argue that this 1.5 inch (3.8 centimeter) figurine ...