The oldest Stromatoporoid sponge on record has changed the timeline for the emergence of the first skeletal reefs.

A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa ...

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known bone tools—dated to 1.5 million years ago—at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

As I write, hundreds of ancient human remains are secretly being buried in a remote desert 1,000km from Sydney (New South ...

Analysis - The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then ...

Oldest Ever Genetic Data of Ancient Human Relative Found in a 2-Million-Year-Old Teeth Excites Archaeologists Genetic ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short — and ended up as a leopard's lunch.

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral ...

When a fragment of a skull emerged from a cave in northern Spain, archaeologist Rosa Huguet was almost certain it came from a human ancestor ... old hominin jawbone (found at the same site ...

These discoveries help bridge gaps in the fossil record ... Stringer, a human origins expert at the Natural History Museum, explains: “These finds currently represent the oldest association ...