After nearly 4 million years of anonymity, the most complete skeleton of an ancient human relative ever found finally has a face (or more precisely, facial bones).

Researchers push back the timeline for their arrival by 600,000 years, raising new questions about how the species spread around the globe.

Invisible for 115,000 years, these chilling "ghost fossils" just emerged from the burning sands of the Nefud Desert to ...

We could learn something from them.

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...

Two fossil skulls discovered in Yunxian, northern China, are now dated to approximately 1.77 million years ago, making them ...

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 ...

“While Homo erectus, our distant ancestor, is widely recognized to have originated in Africa before dispersing into Eurasia, ...

Our DNA is like a treasure trove that holds secrets from deep time, whispers from ancient kin who vanished without a trace yet gave us who we are toda.

Three ancient skulls found in central China are far older than scientists once believed, pushing back the timeline of Homo erectus in China and altering long-held views about early human movement ...

New research dates Homo erectus skulls in China to nearly 1.8 million years ago, making them the oldest hominin fossils in East Asia.