Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

Homo Sapiens pushed out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, but scientists recently discovered a previously unknown lineage.

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

New radioisotopic datings of volcanic fossil sites are helping researchers unravel the evolution of mammals. The University ...

Discover the face of Lucy, the most famous ancestor of modern humans, through groundbreaking forensic facial reconstruction.

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

DNA sequences for the chimpanzee, orangutans and more will help scientists to determine what sets humans apart from other ...

The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

A team of archaeologists and paleontologists from Argentina, the U.S. and China has unearthed the first known example of a ...

The tools, found in an area where an ancient rainforest once stood, push back the oldest known evidence of humans in similar ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...