A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

A shocking discovery of ancient human remains on Antarctica's Yámana Beach raises tantalizing questions about early human ...

In a world first, scientists, led by Professor Yanchang Wei at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, have managed to create ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

In prehistoric communities across what is now northeastern Europe, decorative ornaments with animal teeth were a regular ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

A pioneering study in experimental archaeology has revealed the techniques used by prehistoric communities in north-eastern ...

An artist's view of what the area of the Zvejnieki cemetery (northern Latvia) might have looked like when animal parts were processed in the cooking ...

In these decades, one of the most intriguing puzzles in paleoanthropology has been the Harbin skull known as “Dragon Man.” ...

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing matter, methane fuels sea spiders’ diet, and more.

Dragon Man skull from China confirmed as Denisovan, offering groundbreaking insights into early human evolution and migration.

The nearly complete skull did not match any previously known species of prehistoric human. But two new studies — which researchers say are among the biggest paleoanthropology papers of the year — ...