A previously unknown species of Australopithecus have been discovered in Ethiopia’s Afar region, coexisting with early Homo ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

Human Evolution 140,000-year-old child's skull may have been part modern human, part Neanderthal — but not everyone is convinced Human Evolution 1 million-year-old skull from China holds clues to the ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...