Two fossil skulls discovered in Yunxian, northern China, are now dated to approximately 1.77 million years ago, making them the oldest known hominin remains in eastern Asia. The new findings overturn ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study using artificial intelligence shows Homo habilis was still preyed upon by leopards 2 million years ago. (CREDIT: Rice ...

Dust and sun define field seasons in East Turkana. So do patience and sharp eyes. In northern Kenya, a set of bones pulled from the ground has now changed what scientists can say about one of your ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

Map showing potential migration routes of the human ancestor, Homo erectus, in Africa, Europe and Asia during the early Pleistocene. Key fossils of Homo erectus and the earlier Homo habilis species ...

A paper appearing today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult limb bone.

Ajoutez Yahoo comme source préférée pour voir nos articles sur Google. Un “jackpot fossile”, estime le journal kényan, qui conforte le pays dans son ambition de faire de la région de Turkana une ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Rice University (THE CONVERSATION) Almost 2 million years ...