The first Homo sapien outside Africa was discovered in a Greek cave. Public Domain/University of Tübingen A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of ...

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg belonging to a strikingly small member of the group raises questions about how ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation. The first published study on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and ...

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.

But they did. We know this because many of us have some Neanderthal DNA. We find out what we gained when Homo sapiens mated with Homo neanderthalensis many thousands of years ago. There is a ...

floresiensis, H. luzonensis, H. longi, and H. juluensis in Asia and Nesher Ramla Homo in the Levant. Given what we know from historical events that chronicle human population exchanges through ...

This discovery marks the first Hobbit bone beyond the cranium identified at Mata Menge. Based on the bone's size, researchers concluded the individual stood about 3 feet 3 inches.

Researchers have debated how the hobbits – named Homo floresiensis after the remote Indonesian island of Flores – evolved to be so small and where they fall in the human evolutionary story.

Homo floresiensis and some of the strangely sized animals that lived in their habitat (Image: National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo). Any number of animals in the wild may become isolated from ...