The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of ...

Learn how these Neanderthal findings shaped what we know about Neanderthals and how our ancient human past is intertwined.

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus greatly exceeded the size of modern African elephants. Adults grew to around four meters tall at ...

Researcher Christopher J. Bae identified Homo juluensis, a new human species that coexisted with Denisovans in Asia. A University of Hawaiʻi researcher may have identified a new human species, Homo ...

"Our results point to a scenario where Modern and Archaic should be regarded as populations of an otherwise common human ...

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Research on ancient footprints in Kenya demonstrates coexistence of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei 1.5 million years ...

"Within the past 50,000 years most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," said researcher Jason ...

Chinese scientists have discovered dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, which are the earliest ones found in East Asia in terms of the evolution process towards Homo sapiens ...

The fossils, along with animal bones and stone ... Maria Martinon-Torres, director of Spain's National Research Center on Human Evolution, called the site "one of the most significant discoveries ...

The discovery of Lucy, or “Dinknesh” as the remains are locally known, changed not just Johanson’s career but it also shed new light on how humans evolved and changed over time, according to Johanson, ...