New research shows that the weapons found in Germany are much younger than previously thought, suggesting they were made by ...

they also found the remains of horses, woolly rhinoceroses and large wild cats. Based on the site’s age and location, the team suspects it was once inhabited by a human ancestor called Homo ...

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows. Not only that, the items are ...

One of our direct human ancestors is older than we thought. The Cradle of Humankind northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa has yielded its first Homo erectus fossil, and the oldest found anywhere.

But in a new study, scientists say the bone may belong to one of the most elusive of human ancestors - Denisovans ... amino acids and proteins in bones found that the individual it belonged ...

The ancient remains of the Australopithecus afarensis ... She was believed to be the oldest human ancestor found until the discovery of "Toumai" in Chad in 2001 - a skull dated to six or seven ...