The discovery of Uncus dzaugisi, a 555-million-year-old fossil in South Australia, confirms Precambrian origins for ...

Discover Uncus dzaugisi, a 555-million-year-old worm-like fossil, offering the first Precambrian evidence of Ecdysozoa ...

A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100 ...

A new study, which examined hominin fossils from east Asia, has proposed the introduction of new archaic human species named Homo juluensis.

But due to the limitations of the fossil record, there is a gap in our understanding ... varying levels of co-existence and competition in human evolution, according to the researchers.

Climate change impacts not only life on land but also the largely unexplored deep-sea ecosystem, home to unique and largely unexplored fauna. Deep-sea animals, which have adapted to stable and extreme ...

a tiny human made it to the fossil record. Despite much research there is uncertainty over what could have led to their death. Whatever the reason may have been, enough of the carcass was ...

The "Yunxian Man" skull fossils are the most complete ancient human skull fossils originating from the same era discovered so far in the inland of Eurasia. They have filled a gap in the human ...

Fossils from Xujiayao ... their study and agreed that while evidence of the Juluren is limited, the human record in Asia is "more expansive than most specialists have been assuming." ...

Until very recently, all hominin fossils found in China that did not match Homo erectus or Homo sapiens were lumped together. Compared to hominin fossils in Africa and Europe, the human fossil record ...