The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

Dredging leads to the uncovering of thousands of vertebrate fossils, among which two were identified to be hominin species.

Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat ...

“That there is a collection of 27 bone tools, and not just one or a few, suggests that hominins 1.5 million years ago (at least in this one place) were able to successfully transfer their ...

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

Hominins living on an Indonesian island 700,000 years ago were even smaller than Homo floresiensis, the so-called hobbits that lived on the same island much more recently.Newly analysed fossils ...

Subsequent discoveries in Asia and Africa in recent decades, such as the fossil finds of Homo floresiensis, tiny hominins who lived 100,000 to 50,000 years ago in what’s now the Indonesian ...

In addition to these two species of hominins, researchers in the region have also found evidence of ancestors of animals still found in Africa today like giraffes, pigs, and elephants. The ...

“That there is a collection of 27 bone tools, and not just one or a few, suggests that hominins 1.5 million years ago (at least in this one place) were able to successfully transfer their ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical thinking and advanced craftsmanship.