Fossils found in Georgia challenge existing theories of human origins, suggesting two early human species coexisted at the Dmanisi site.

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

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 ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull suggests Homo erectus evolved through a messy transition, with multiple human forms coexisting.

The reconstruction was produced by an international research team led by Dr Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at Midwestern ...

A TRAGIC tale of a savage lion attack on a teenage boy has been revealed by archaeologists – and miraculously, he survived ...

According to Dr Baab, this may reflect the Gona population preserving traits from the earliest Homo erectus groups that left ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Ministry of Culture has received the repatriated collection of ancient human Homo erectus ...

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 Netherlands has returned four pieces from a major archaeological collection to Indonesia, including the skullcap which ...