Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

A new species of dinosaur uncovered in the Gobi Desert ... of keratin over the bone — the same material that makes up human hair and nails — which is much more vulnerable to disintegration ...

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

The snakes were found in mountain forests along roads, near farms and other human-modified areas. Researchers said they named the new species “palamala” after the Latin words for “openly ...