After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

A Skull at the Crossroads When initially found, Yunxian 2 was presumed to be an early human ancestor like Homo erectus, the lineage that is well known for migrating out of Africa and walking on two ...

A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...

A roughly 1.8 million-year-old Homo erectus jawbone discovered in the Republic of Georgia may be evidence of one of the earliest human groups to live outside Africa. The discovery, announced July 31 ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Most of ...

Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at the same time, a study found. The prints are thought to belong to the species ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now ...

The bones of Dragon Hill -- The dragon reclaims its own -- Giants and genes: Changing views of Peking Man's evolutionary significance -- The third function: A hypothesis on the mysterious skull of ...