Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

Someone brought them. That someone, it now seems, was our ancestors. Possibly Homo erectus, one of the first species to walk upright, to wield fire, and to migrate across continents.

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.

a fragment of jaw and a partial skull cap. Despite being just a small part of the face, Rosa provides key insights into these elusive early European populations. The researchers compared Rosa's facial ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce. On March 12, researchers announced the discovery of a new fossil from the ...

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral ...

Based on the fossil record, we know that species like Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived in Africa (and beyond) during the period in question, making them possible candidates for these ...

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

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Similarities between Pink and Homo erectus prompted scientists to give ... When a fragment of a skull emerged from a cave in northern Spain, archaeologist Rosa Huguet was almost certain it came ...