Researchers identified Homo juluensis, a potential ancient human species, shedding light on Asia’s evolutionary history.

Fossils of 600-million-year-old "tiny humanoids" were discovered in Antarctica. A story perpetuated in some social media ...

The methodology involved creating detailed 3D models of the ulna from modern primates, humans and fossilised hominins, as per ...

An international team of researchers said Thursday that they had found two sets of hominin footprints that were made about ...

A stunning discovery of fossilized footprints pressed into soft mud preserved the unexpected and extraordinary moment, ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes ...

Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

Scientists make their case for classifying an extinct group that lived in northern China until 120,000 years ago as a ...

Recent work has also revealed that Homo sapiens interbred with three separate Denisovan populations. As a consequence, all ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

We've known for some time now that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, also known as archaic humans, interbred before Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago. In fact, in some ways, Neanderthals ...