A new study has revealed that fossils long believed to be Japan’s oldest human remains are actually from a brown bear. The Ushikawa bones, discovered in the 1950s and dated to over 20,000 years ago, ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

It might not be a coincidence that one of the most interesting geologic locations in the world is also palaeoanthropology’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newly discovered fossils in Kenya reveal that Paranthropus boisei, once seen as a simple plant-eater, had surprisingly human-like ...

For over 60 years, scientists believed they had found some of the oldest human fossils in Japan in the Ushikawa district. But ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavations have been underway since 1994 in the Hominid Cave at the Thomas Quarry I, south-west of the city of Casablanca in ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African prehistory. The remains come from Thomas Quarry I, and a new analysis pins them to ...

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