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

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Scientists exploring Romania’s Hațeg Basin have discovered one of the densest dinosaur fossil sites ever found, with bones ...

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

Researchers of this study conducted uranium-based dating, which revealed that Homo juluensis lived sometime between 140,000 ...

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

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

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 ...

The most recent addition to the human family tree – named after its unusually fat head – roamed northern China at the same ...

A recent climate study from the University of Wollongong suggests that Homo floresiensis, the small early human species from ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.