In Ethiopia, they found hominid skull, jaw, and arm bones plus a few teeth that dated back to 4.4 million years ago. That would make these the oldest hominid ancestors yet identified, and the most ...

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 ...

Deep inside a Portuguese cave, the fossil of a human cranium lay buried for 400,000 years, surrounded by a smattering of stone tools and animal remains ... the oldest human fossil ever found ...

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.

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 ...

Bed I, the oldest ... In the next three weeks the Leakeys found more than 400 pieces to comprise an almost complete skull. It was not too different from remains found in South Africa by Raymond ...

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 ...