Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with ...

A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...

New fossil finds in Kenya reveal that Paranthropus boisei had human-like hands and feet, ending a long debate over its ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the ...

Deep in South Africa’s Rising Star Cave, archaeologists found soot-blackened ceilings, hearths, and charred bones, proof that ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools.

The last known members of the Homo erectus species were killed in a "mass death" event between 117,000 and 108,000 ago, scientists have said. By re-analyzing remains first discovered almost a century ...

Homo ergaster evolved during an accelerated period of global cooling and drying that cleared more and more tropical rainforest from Africa and created a desert in the northern half of the continent.

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