A new study takes another look at some of the oldest known stone tools and suggests their makers transported materials for up ...

A new dating of the minerals that surrounded and grew over the mysterious Petralona skull places its age at 277,000 years at least – and suggesting it is a member of a primitive, extinct hominid that ...

Scientists have uncovered the world’s oldest evidence of human-Neanderthal interbreeding: a 140,000-year-old child from ...

The hominid's remains are presented alongside Selam, the fossil of a baby Australopithecus who lived about 100,000 years ...

Neanderthals still shared the Earth with our ancestors. Recent discoveries are challenging our linear view of human evolution ...

Hominid teeth hold clues to our evolutionary history. Learn how fossilized teeth reshape our understanding of human origins and the complexity of our family tree.

From Ethiopia comes an incredible discovery—early humans seem to have potentially lived alongside the very apes they evolved ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave ...

Excavated implements suggest a Homo species arrived on Sulawesi over 1 million years ago, before a nearby island hosted hobbit ancestors.

He later directed excavations of a 4.4-million-year-old partial hominid skeleton known as Ardi that also shook up the human family tree (SN: 12/31/09).