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

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

The ancient kitten was so small that it could comfortably fit in the palm of one's hand and was much smaller than the modern ...

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 ...

Since Shiyan sits on a treasure trove of relics related to their origins, evolution and development of mankind, experts say ...

The world's first scientific facial reconstruction case based on the "Yunxian Man" skull fossils dating back approximately 1 ...

Using advanced scanning, modeling, and forensic techniques, Chinese scientists have reconstructed the faces of Yunxian Man ...

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

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

Dart was examining a set of fossils that had been unearthed by miners near the town of Taung in South Africa when he found ...

NAGOYA -- What were until now thought to be the oldest human fossils found in Japan, known as the "Ushikawa man," are actually the bones of a bear, researchers recently announced. The fossilized ...