Faces are a huge part of human identity. Researchers have found multiple human remains across decades, which showcase how ...

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

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 ...

This discovery marks the first Hobbit bone beyond the cranium identified at Mata Menge ... that the Hobbit descended from either Homo erectus or more primitive species such as Homo habilis ...

Pithecanthropus, now called Homo erectus, or erect man ... real taste of public adulation with the discovery of a little skull of an 18-million-year-old ape called Proconsul.

Anthropologists have said human beings evolved in a straight line from Homo habilis to Homo erectus to us, Homo sapiens, over two million years. But fossil bones found in 2000 near Lake Turkana in ...

Phillip Morfin initially thought he was looking at an animal skull but realized it was a human when he saw the victim's eye sockets Sam Gillette is a writer/reporter at PEOPLE. She first joined ...

He said it looked like a skull, but he initially thought it belonged to an animal. But then he used his fishing rod to turn it over, and he saw eye sockets. “There’s no mistaking what I saw.

Homo Erectus This species, until recently known by a multiplicity of other names, was probably the immediate predecessor of modern man. It now seems possible that the transition took place some ...