A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

A virtual reconstruction of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus skull from Ethiopia uncovers primitive facial features and ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

New fossil evidence from China points to a possible new branch of humanity—Homo juluensis. Combining primitive traits with surprisingly modern features, this species could bridge the gap between Homo ...

Sundaland was a vast Southeast Asian landmass that existed for most of the last 2 million years, exposed during glacial ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...

The discovery and the use of fire changed the nature of the digestion of food, creating additional calories. Serotonin, a ...

Instinctively, we stand exactly where we started, in a land before time . When the Mammoths Are on the Move: Homo Erectus may ...

The Netherlands has returned to Indonesia four important exhibits from the collection of Dutch anthropologist Eugene Dubois.