By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long ...

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short — and ended up as a leopard's lunch.

Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

“Out of Africa” has some plausible ideas, namely that Homo erectus advanced and went into colder climates and became Homo heidelbergensis, which led linearly to modern humanity. However, that requires ...

THE ‘Sima del Elefante’ (‘Chasm of the Elephant’) is a chain of underground caves in a limestone outcrop near Atapuerca, a ...

The remains, which are the oldest facial bones ever discovered in Western Europe, include several fragments of broken bone ...

Although their skulls are similar, Pink's facial structure is narrower than examples of Homo erectus found across Asia and ...

However, the shape of the teeth made it clear that the bones belonged to a human ... They have classified them as Homo aff. erectus, which means they might be Homo erectus, but it is not certain.