WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations ...

They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...

An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the history of modern humans. Using careful 3D scanning and digital ...

Ancient bones found in a cave in northern Germany prove what scientists have long suspected: Humans and our Neanderthal cousins lived alongside each other for thousands of years in northern Europe.

The announcement in November of the discovery of what appears to be a near-intact hominid skull in China is a stunning discovery. It has the potential of further revealing the complex intricacies of ...

Imagine ancient hominids sailing the Mediterranean hundreds of thousands of years before humans (Homo sapiens) appeared. The idea might sound bizarre: we think of boats as a human transportation ...

This research was supported through grants to Tesla Monson's collaborators by the Washington Research Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Much of the data collection for the extant primates ...

In life, the creature probably resembled a chimpanzee more than anything else. It moved through a lakeside landscape of grasslands and forest searching for food, accompanied by small bands of its ...

Neanderthals are an extinct species of ancient humans who lived 430,000 to 40,000 years ago, while homo sapiens are modern humans. For a long time, many people believed that we evolved from ...

Remnants of fireplaces found in the Rising Star caves in South Africa suggest homo naledi, a pre-human ancestor, used fire as a tool. That’s according to an announcement made during a lecture by ...

Unos nuevos fósiles de Indonesia, entre ellos el húmero más pequeño jamás hallado de un hominino adulto, pertenecían a la diminuta especie “Homo floresiensis”, según los investigadores. By Carl Zimmer ...