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 ...

Found in Ukraine, the fragments show signs of human manipulation—though researchers still haven't ruled out the possibility that they were shaped by natural forces ...

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

“In my view, this is the oldest and strongest published evidence for an IUP (Initial Upper Palaeolithic) presence of H. sapiens in Europe, several millennia before the Neanderthals disappeared,” Chris ...

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 ...