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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The ancient remains of Lucy, a pivotal human ancestor, have made their European debut in Prague, captivating audiences with their historical significance. This exhibition, titled "People and their ...

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

The 3.18-million-year-old bone fragments of human ancestor Lucy, which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe ...

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

The framed hominid fossil "Lucy," is seen at a exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006.

One longstanding theory of human bipedalism is that it first developed in our ancient hominid ancestors as a way to more easily move around the African savannah—an ecosystem created by rising ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The human ancestor fossil known as Lucy left Ethiopia for display in a European museum, Ethiopian national media reported Friday, citing Tourism Minister Selamawit ...

Research from scientists at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine has shed new light on an age-old question: what makes the human brain unique? The study is published online in ...