Researchers have discovered a strange-looking skull that does not appear to be human in nature. It’s not every day you get to find a new species, and with this discovery come many questions about our ...

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

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

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

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

A mysterious skull discovered in Petralona Cave, northern Greece, more than six decades ago has finally been identified as belonging to a primitive, extinct hominid that once lived alongside ...

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 earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old ...

Our ancestors' teeth tell an astonishing story of survival and adaptation. A recent study reveals how their diet influenced ...

Some scientists believe humans became bipedal to adapt to climate change, but our closest primate ancestors complicate that picture.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This object is part of the Education ...

An international study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the French National Center for Scientific Research ...