In addition to the information that the fossil itself can provide, it has drawn attention because most of the oldest human ...

Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern ...

An evolutionary trait that made homo sapiens a dominant species in the world was an ability to make and use tools. And new ...

New fossils reveal the hand bones of Paranthropus boisei, proving this early human ancestor could make and use tools.

New fossil evidence out of Africa strongly suggests that two species of hominin coexisted with each other over one million ...

Paleontologists spotted injuries on the tails of duck-billed dinosaur fossils that might have occurred during mating.

Found in a Greek cave in 1959, the Petralona skull has puzzled scientists for decades. Dated to nearly 700,000 years ago, it ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

"When first encountering high concentrations of exposed fossil bone like bonebeds, it is often the ‘meadow’ of orange lichen that is noticed first." ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

The role of megafaunal exploitation in early human evolution remains debated. Occasional use of large carcasses by early hominins has been considered by some as opportunistic, possibly a fallback ...

Historically, most dinosaur experts believed there was only one species of tyrannosaur roaming around North America between 69 – 66 million years ago in the late Cretaceous period. Then in the 1940s, ...